Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I saw an interview of Demi Moore on the Today Show just last week and she was talking about

her new show which is out which is exciting but the host asked her about Bruce Willis and it's out there it's public that he had a

dementia diagnosis I believe it was last year his wife is talking about it she's writing a book on it to help other caregivers in the same situation.

And I love what Demi Moore said when she was asked by the host what advice she has for people in a similar situation.

Someone with a loved one who's going through something really difficult.

Maybe it's with their health, maybe it's with their money,

whatever it may be.

And she said, the only advice she gives is to meet them that person whoever they are where they're at.

Meet them where they're at.

Meaning don't resist the changes you're experiencing.

Don't allow your expectation of what should be today, allow you to discard what actually is today.

It's so easy to almost put our head in the sand, turn away, look away, run off crying, hey I want to do it, I get it, when our expectation and

reality are a complete mismatch, sometimes in the most heartbreaking way.

But she didn't say, you know, stay positive or, you know, just manifest better health or,

look, it's, and there's nothing wrong with those things but sometimes I think we miss out on our life

when we refuse reality we reject reality.

reality.

Dr. Shafali, who's a conscious parenting expert, says this too.

She says, parent the child in front of you, not the child you think you should have.

It's quite beautiful really when we can meet reality, not resist it, not refute it, not reject it.

And we can be in this place of presence and consciousness and

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