Winning

When you feel like giving up,
When you feel like nothing is worth the frustration, the tears, the mental pain,
What is it that keeps you here?
What are your protective factors?
What things would you want to achieve if your life were more stable than it is at this moment?
What is it that is helping you to push through and continue towards what feels impossible right now?
Why are you still here?
What is driving your reason to look forward and not backwards?
You’ve got through trials and challenges. You’ve faced barriers that could have destroyed you.
You have overcome your most difficult days.
Fears, negative patterns and behaviours.
Going around in circles with the same mindset.
Nothing had changed.
PAST TENSE!
You’ve been a warrior from the start of this journey.
Fighting enough to get you through, moment by moment.
The urges have won for so long, but somehow you’ve dodged them from taking your life.
You’ve been redirected.
You’ve reclaimed your glow and gained back the sparkle you thought was gone forever.
You never knew if you’d make it through another day, and so here you are, ready to build a life you believed was going to end sooner than now.
Small, consistent wins make the biggest steps forward long term.