I have been encouraged to be intimately familiar with my values. Not just a broad sense of how I feel, like, “Family is the most important thing to me,” or, “I was raised with a faith tradition still practiced,” but to truly grasp and articulate what matters to me in my core. This helps me create meaning and purpose in my life, even while unable to participate in my usual sweep of activities and pursuits. Because when I am fluent with my values, I can access them easily, even while in pain, and

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