A Way Back to Hopefulness

How do you lift yourself up again when everything feels oppressive?
When your own body can’t move?

Back to the Basics:

• Count my blessings

• See what it is I have before me

• Take time, space, moments to reconnect with my life — my family, friends, communities.

  • Reach out to those who are there FOR me — people who share the same values as me.

  • Tell them my pains • my worries • tell them my present moment of feeling hopelessness.

  • And allow them to remind me of the things WE value most.

• Spend time with Bryan - the purest soul I know. Watch her unadulterated joy, unfiltered, unapologetically joy-filled. She is Light. She is Golden.

• Surround myself with plants, with nature, with connection to something larger than… all this.

• Revisit and remember WHY I create.

• Remember my VALUES…..