Elena Brower

Yeah.

It's just the question that I'm asking every morning when I wake up.

You know, what's being asked of me today and slowly but surely my days are getting less and less.

work-oriented and more practice-oriented, volunteer-oriented, which is so nice.

So I don't have to, you know, I'm not so much managing a schedule anymore.

So what is being asked of me today, rather than it being, well, I have an eight o'clock and a 12 o'clock and I have two and maybe a four.

It's more like, well, I'm going to be present for my kid.

He was just here visiting with me the last couple of days.

So yesterday sounded a little bit like I'm going to be present with my kid.

I'm going to let him pick the meals and let him drive the whole day.

I'm just going to follow along like I'm serving somebody.

And it was beautiful.

And it's just what happened.

Some days it's much bigger.

Some days I'm going to my patient's home that I'm working with now.

She shall remain nameless, but she is a very renowned chef who's now in her 80s, suffering from a progressive neurological situation that is very serious and very fast acting.

And what's being asked of me when I go there is not dissimilar to what's being asked of me when I'm with my kid.

Presence.

follow along with the energy, see what's needed.

One day I'm cleaning out her cabinets, her spice cabinets, and she can't speak, so I'm just taking them out of the cabinet, and I'm looking at it, and I'm going, well, it's been here for 15 years, and I'll smell it, and I'll be like, not sure, and I would hand it over to her to smell, and she's fully there in her brain, but she can't speak, so she'll go like this, or she'll go like this,