Don’t give up….

I wanted to share another daily zen that spoke to me.

Lately, I’ve felt like giving up. Healing from trauma is so hard at times. It takes hard work and sometimes I feel like I have no more strength left.

I am losing hope and gaining hope multiple times a day. My strength varies by each hour. Sometimes it’s not there, sometimes it is.

But I know that I must push through the times I feel like giving up. I need to grab the strength to keep going with all my might, ignoring the lie that things will never get better.

My therapist says “I will hold your hope until you can believe it.” Right now I am having to depend on that because I feel like I have no hope, but I am holding on to the fact that she is holding it for me. I lose it a gain it multiple times a day.

It’s like the game they have at fairs where you shoot ball at a target to try and knock it down. When you’re grabbing the gun, you say, ” I can do this,” but when you miss you after so many times, you give up.

I feel like I keep missing the target, and part of me wants to give up trying. But with my therapist standing right by my side and cheering me on and she knows that sometime I am going to knock it down, I hold on to her faith in me and shoot again.

That is easier said than done right now, but I think I am finding the strength to try and try again until I finally knock the target down and win my prize of freedom.

That’s just what my thoughts were on this daily zen. I hope it helps someone who might feel like giving up and needs an extra boost to keep going.

Here’s a quote from my Gratitude app to inspire you today 💫 https://gratefulness.page.link/ivos