The strength it takes to endure in your weakness

Reaching out when you’re feeling weak is not weakness but strength.  Even if you feel weak, you’re not weak when you take the risk to reach out and get help.  Yes, it can be exhausting, even debilitating, and that’s why you know it takes strength to do.  You’re strong to reach out.

But... you’re not weak if you’re too weak to reach out.  You’re not weak for being weak, you’re forgiven for needing to rest a while, garner what little strength you have, to prepare for the next effort.

Your courage in looking high and low for a way through your recovery is inspiring, even if you don’t think it’s anything special.  If I were to ask you, “How hard have you worked to get through this?” your heart would say, “As hard as I can, always.”

You’re doing the best you can with what you have at present.  I know because I’ve been there, and it’s only a matter of time before it’s mine or somebody else’s turn.  Depression and anxiety don’t discriminate.  Nor does loss, and grief takes us into myriad form of emotion and thought patterns we can’t always control.

When you’re weak you feel exposed and vulnerable, and it never feels good, but try and acknowledge that it takes a great deal of strength to endure as you’re enduring right now.

Take heart.  What you’re learning now will have a purpose, especially as you’ll probably want to pay the support forward that you’re receiving right now.

Only as we look back from an utter collapse do we see just what we got through.

With 20/20 hindsight it’s often as if you recognise just how strong you were when you were feeling most weak.

Take heart, take it easy, don’t give up.