Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. This week's go-to is about crying.

This week's go to is about crying.

I had a total mental breakdown last night.

It was in the dark.

We had already gone to sleep.

And I just started thinking about the very last minutes

of my mom's life. I was alone with her. It was very intense and I just lost it.

And I was really trying to stop myself and in trying to stop myself, I was starting to give myself a migraine which is really a

dangerous thing for me that can go on for days and just totally knock out 24-hour

periods where I'm in the dark with ice packed around my head on Sumatrip Tan in total silence.

So then the tip of the migraine iceberg totally throws me to the state of panic.

Even talking about it kind of makes me panic.

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