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I want you to stop what you’re doing. Sit down and really listen to me. Turn off the music. Shut the door. Go in another room. Get away from people. Whatever you have to do.
Okay? I have your attention?
You have people who believe in you. True, some have misunderstood you, even hurt you. But you have people who believe in you. What do they see?
Everything that goes wrong, every irritation, gets a hotline right to your emotions. They all feel like great candidates to be the “last straw.”
Do you believe you are loved?
You know, don’t you, that it is possible for a human to be deeply loved and not feel it?
Just like it is possible to hold a glass of water in your hands and not drink it. To have the answer staring you in the face and not see it. Just because you don’t see it does not mean it isn’t there. Just because you are thirsty does not mean there is no water. Just because you do not feel loved does not mean you are unloved.
Let me start a sentence for you to finish.
Please speak these words to yourself:
So, you are ready to make the journey out of this? You are desperate to make the journey out of this? You have felt this before, the “I must beat this” feeling. What will be different this time? I will tell you. This time I will not leave you to do it alone. I will not forget you. I will not give up on you. I will remind you a hundred or a thousand times of things you would say you know, but have not been able to keep in your hands. I will keep picking them up when they clatter to the floor. I will pry open your fingers if I need to and give them to you again, and again, and again, until the clattering sound reminds you, not of something being lost, but of something being given and held.
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