It’s easy to take it all for granted – especially the small things.
notes to self
MANTRA MEANING: It’s going to be okay
They tell you he’s in a better place. That everything happens for a reason. That good will prevail. That time heals all wounds. Frankly, you’ve been having a little trouble buying it.
MANTRA MEANING: Let it go
That thing—it was done to you. That thing that no one else has had to suffer through, you did. That thing that turned your life so upside down, you didn’t even recognize yourself, for a while. That thing gave you scars, and made you hate the mirror for a while, didn’t it?
MANTRA MEANING: Keep going
One morning in 1982, a bright 17 year-old girl opened a rejection letter from her dream college. In the following years, she lost her mother and miscarried her first child. Her husband was abusive and after just a year of marriage, she was a divorced, single mother suffering from severe depression. She relied on welfare to make ends meet and at 30, she contemplated suicide.
MANTRA MEANING: I Choose Beauty
On the couch one evening. She sits alone, in her head, thoughts ruminating and weighing her down. The television flickers unimportantly. Background noise.
IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY – Engraved Sterling Pendant
Sometimes very basic words are all you need to make it through the day. When I was in the thick of my depression, I would repeat to myself, “It’s going to be okay” over and over.
FOCUS ON THE GOOD – Engraved Sterling Pendant
Things may not always be going well, but challenge yourself to find just one good thing a day. It will shift your attention, if even for a moment.
