I think what ruins growth is looking at it on a life long scale. I believe the key is the day by day. Even the hour by hour if you need to. Being intentional with your thoughts, and speaking good things with your mouth. Then before you know it you’ve gone a day without anxiety, without fear, without sadness. Then a week, and a month. But this kind of growth doesn’t mean there won’t be days that make you rethink it all, days where you sink back into your shell and question if you ever came out of it in the first place. But the point is that when you actively practice speaking life over yourself and others, those harder days seem like just that; days. Not lifetimes. You’ll start to hear Hope whispering in the back of your head. You’ll remember that at one point you were in a place you thought you’d always be in, but now you’re here. Now you’re more. You’re stronger. Kinder. Softer. Wiser. And hard days start to become easier to brush off. Take the time that you need. Love is not methodical, healing is not methodical, growth isn’t either. It’s all about intentionality and heart. It’s about bringing people into your lives and giving them a place to stay. As well as letting yourself do the same in the lives of those who love you. Don’t take it too seriously. Before you know it you’re breathing deep and the only thing that hurts is the knowledge that at one point you didn’t believe it’d get better, or that you’d be where you are now.
