When you’re in the thick of it – whether it’s heartbreak, burnout, grief, anxiety, or deep uncertainty about the state of the world and it’s leaders – it might feel like things will never improve, as though the weight of it all is here to stay. But it won’t last forever. However heavy everything feels, I’d like to remind you that whatever you’re facing right now is not the end of your story. Life might feel overwhelming. You might feel stuck. But feelings, like seasons, change. And even when you can’t see it yet, change is happening.
Psychological research and lived experience show that people are more resilient than they often realise. Even in the face of great pain, we have the capacity to heal, adapt and to grow. None of this happens overnight and certainly not perfectly but gradually, in small, quiet ways.
If you’re struggling today, please try not to judge your whole life by this current impasse or challenge. You might be in a moment of deep winter but spring always follows. Better days are not a fantasy – they are a biological and emotional truth for most people, given the right support, safety and time.
In the meantime, while you are waiting for the better days:
You are not failing. You are navigating. And the road ahead, though not easy now, can be lighter and more hopeful than today.
Please don’t give up.
Better days are ahead and that’s not just optimism, that’s a fact.
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