Sonali's HEART-WRENCHING revelation of the PAIN she is going through

Sonali Bendre pens down a HEART-WRENCHING post expressing the PAIN she is going through...

Published: Tuesday,Oct 09, 2018 11:53 AM GMT-06:00

Priyanka Chauhan

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In a heart-wrenching post, Sonali Bendre has revealed her pain that she's been going through.

Here's what she has penned down alongside a very motivating picture of herself.

"I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me." - Cheryl Strayed, Wild.

Over the past couple of months, I have had good days and bad ones. There have been days when I've been so exhausted and in so much pain that even lifting a finger hurt. I feel like sometimes it's a cycle one that starts off with physical pain and leads to mental and emotional pain. The bad days have been many Post chemo, post-surgery and the like where even just laughing hurts.

Sometimes it felt like it took everything I've had to push past it a minute to minute battle with myself. I got through it knowing that even though I was fighting a long drawn out, draining battle it was one that was worth the fight.

It's important to remember that we're allowed to have those bad days. Forcing yourself to be happy and cheerful all the time serves no purpose. Who are we being fake and putting on an act for?

I allowed myself to cry, to feel the pain, to indulge in self-pity for a short while. Only you know what you're going through and it is fine to accept it. Emotions aren't wrong. Feeling negative emotions isn't wrong. But after a point, identify it, recognize it and refuse to let it control your life.

It takes an immense amount of self-care to get out of that zone. Sleep always helps, or having my favourite smoothie after chemo, or just talking to my son.

For now, as my treatment continues my visual focus remains to just get better and get back home.

It's yet another test

Student all my life

Learning all my life

#OneDayAtATime"

Here's what she posted:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bos7pBnhLfN/