I often ask myself (and my clients), “What gets you through a hard time? When what usually helps isn’t helping, what do you do then?”
Knowing that pain is an unavoidable part of the human experience, I often sit with questions like, “What is your reason for living?” And, “On the toughest days, why continue? How do you get through it?” What helps? And when that’s not helping, what then?”
I wrote a bit about finding hope in hopeless times here: Weekly(ish) journal prompts – a poem & and prayer for hard times.
The poem and the prayer in that post are some things I turn to when what usually helps is no longer helping. I can’t help but ask myself, “What if the poem and prayer don’t help either? What then?” I’ll come up with something, but the same question follows, “What if that doesn’t help either?” It’s this never-ending, incomplete cycle of what ifs and the question, “How do I trust if there’s absolutely nothing communicating to me that even though things aren’t ok that they will be one d…
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