Hope is essential to recovery. If you can not hope for a healthier future you can not get there. Hope relies on some degree of belief in yourself and your power to make it through the darkness. Hope sees a future that is better. You always have to have hope.
Gratitude is that thing which keeps us strong in the here and now. Gratitude looks back and looks around at all the things we have- big OR small. We can not forget the gifts given to us by our friends, ourselves and the unexpected surprises in the world. We are all works in progress. We are all growing, that in and of itself deserves gratitude.
There is always something- something good and wonderful to ground ourselves with, but sometimes you have to be able to put yourselves in the frame of mind to be willing to grasp it. And we get tired of being sick, and we get tired of struggling, and we get tired OF BEING OURSELVES. Just having this and trying to recover, is depressing in and of itself. It is ok to stop and look around at all the other wonders in your life, outside of the disorder, and feel amazing, and feel strong, and.... feel grateful that you have those wonderful things in your life.
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
-Emily DIckenson
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