Ruth explains why she tries to live in the present.

Transcript

I’ve had to talk to my psychologist to help me accept where I’m at now. Because I was living in, “Well, when am I going to get back to work? When am I going to get back to myself? When am I going to be able to swim again? When am I going to?” Actually, it was making me more upset. I was fighting my body more. It was making me just overall unhappy. So, when I accepted that that this is where I’m at right now, and then I just have to live day by day and see how I do. It’s just changed. I’m finding little bits of joy during the day now rather than seeing it as “If only I can do this,” to “I did this yay!” … Last year, I couldn’t even lift a towel over my head, like to hang it up on the line. And I can now walk around my house with my dog, which I couldn’t do that at all before. So, I think it’s not necessarily that I have goals. It’s that I’m trying to notice improvement, because I had to, I think, let go of that goal mindset because I was, I think setting myself up for failure all the time.

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