Brian Wright—author, host of Success Profiles Radio, and publisher of Success Profiles Magazine—shares that the best ways to get to the other side of a life-shattering experience are to practice gratitude and to be kind to yourself. He learned these lessons while enduring H1N1 swine flu virus and pneumonia in 2014.

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