Abigail Spencer Instagram – Why I “We Care”: In 2011 my father died suddenly of a heart attack on Valentine’s Day in Malibu CA after a surf at his favorite spot: County Line. Some people know this story, some don’t, about how this one moment, this one instant changed the course of my life. I also entered into a very painful & ongoing divorce & custody journey with my then 2 year old son’s father. But what I could never have predicted was the physical health journey I would go on after these two life shattering events. The grief was trapped in my body & I started having bouts of bronchitis & chronic ENT issues. Simultaneously my work life increased and I had the joy of having several opportunities to help create some of the characters in movies & tv shows you may or may not have seen. Contraction/Expansion. By 2015 – 2019 I was keeping long hours, sometimes 16 – 21 hour days. Traveling on weekends to be with my son. I love to create & I had caught a wave when Mad Men came into my life & I decided to surf it. The toll… most people don’t know that I was on 3 – 4 rounds of antibiotics a year to keep working & living. I had a doctor visit me one weekend when my body gave out on set & reported that my adrenals were so low that he didn’t know how I was walking, talking or functioning. Friends were reaching out planning a potential intervention because they were so worried about me. I had to change course. I had to find more support. I had become so used to being a sick, high functioning person that I couldn’t recall what it was like to be well. My insides were falling apart. I developed chronic cystic acne. The stress was unbearable. But on the outside: no one could tell.