Most of my career was spent in clinical practice working with children & their families with life limiting, life threatening disease due to cancer. This was an amazing experience to be involved in the challenges such a diagnosis posses families. The capacity of people to overcome and very often grow through the emotional challenges was life affirming. One of the biggest lesson for me is that there are worse things in life than death. It is in how we rise to the challenges that life presents us… Show more Most of my career was spent in clinical practice working with children & their families with life limiting, life threatening disease due to cancer. This was an amazing experience to be involved in the challenges such a diagnosis posses families. The capacity of people to overcome and very often grow through the emotional challenges was life affirming. One of the biggest lesson for me is that there are worse things in life than death. It is in how we rise to the challenges that life presents us that define the quality of our life experience. Dealing with life on life's terms is a skill that can be developed if we allow our experiences of life to guide us rather than define us. Show less