A Letter Written to Whoever Needs This Today

No doctor, no date, no earlier versions of you defines the person you are and the person you are becoming. Grasp the understanding that the things that have happened to you in your past do not signify what your future holds. Feel your feelings but remember that feelings don’t justify truths or facts. Understand your mental health is just as important as your physical. Ask if you can sit in your neighbors’ chicken coop. Ask the important questions. Ask the questions you think are dumb. Ask. Take time to be outside. Know that fresh air does ya good. Make time for friends and family but honor your boundaries when your brain says to. Visit and revisit your faith daily, hourly. Find and evaluate continuously what it is that makes you tick and keeps you going. It might change and that’s okay. Change is scary. Therapy is difficult. Routine is important. But nothing will ever be as important as how you feel. How you are doing in everyday moments. Realize that we have a lifetime of moments. Each moment comes just as quickly as it passes. And like moments, we all have choices- each choice leading us to this spot right here. Are you standing alone? Are you in a hospital room or at home? Are you lost? Are you eager to progress in recovery but don’t know where to go? Are you hopeful or are you hopeless? Are you happy with where your standing? ... Me too. Regardless of what your answers are- know that they are valid. That they hold meaning. So keep living. Fly the coop and gain a new perspective or roost and ground yourself in the basic principle that you’re here and that your story is not finished.

All the love peeps