Sometimes you’ve just got to get up off that floor!
It can take a long time to realise that you are the one you have been waiting for.
No one is coming to rescue us, but I mean that in the best possible sense.
Hear me out...
It’s not that people will not support you, it’s not that those friends, family, loved ones, healers, therapists won’t support you or don’t get it - they will, and they do! But only YOU can pick yourself up off that floor. Only YOU can make the phone calls you need, send out your resumes, take those classes you have always wanted to, say “hello” to the girl or boy you fancy, go for that dream job, book that trip you have been planning in your head for months/weeks/decades! Only YOU can be the one to stand up in the depths of emotional turmoil when you feel there is nothing left and you have no energy. Then suddenly, you feel an ounce of strength. It is only YOU that can put your two feet on the floor and move away from that place where it isn’t working anymore and probably hasn’t for a long time.
Yes, we can lose confidence on the way. Yes, life can throw us so-called punches from time to time, but just like Rocky Balboa in the ring, you’ve got to keep getting back up and fight for that someone or something! What if you were your own “Adrian”? It’s better in the ring than on the sidelines, and only YOU can get in that ring and continue to fight, even when you feel so close to that floor. Stand up and fight!
Do not be afraid anymore, rolling with the punches so to speak is part of it (metaphorically speaking of course), but only YOU can pick yourself up and ultimately save yourself. Like that fighter in the ring, you have the coaches coaching you on the sidelines of life who will show up in the form of therapists, friends, lovers, partners, husbands and wives, and if you’re lucky, your immediate family (we can all get triggered by our families) but only YOU can throw that punch (metaphorically speaking), get up off that floor and keep fighting!
You’ve just got to believe! You’ve got this!
Emma Rose
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