Mile by mile it is DEFINITELY a trial!! This saying has a special meaning for me as it was one that my mom found and wrote out for me. I placed it next to my calendar where I would see it everyday while working on my course work for my Masters program. A little motivation to keep me going during my recovery and to remind me to take things step by step and moment by moment.
The big picture is often too difficult to think about. It can be very overwhelming when you think of all of the things that you need to get done in a day. Or when you think of all of the steps that need to happen before you are fully healed and recovered from a traumatic incident. I still have a long way to go on my journey but I take it each step at a time, each day at a time.
Taking Each Mile As It Comes
Posting this saying next to my calendar was, unknowingly, my first attempt at cheering myself up with an inspiring thought or phrase. I also started taking inspiring messages and taping them to my mirror. At the start of 2014, I cut out “This is your year!” and taped it to my mirror where I would see it every day. I also posted a fortune cookie that said: “courage is the mastery of fear- not the absence of fear”. I found it to be very helpful to see these messages. It’s also why I do a Monday Mantra post every week. These days I have a number of sayings in frames or on wood blocks up in my bedroom. It got to the point where every time I went into Winners or Francesca’s I would pick up another one! I definitely had to force myself to stop buying them as I have run out of place to put them!!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week,
Charlene xoxo