Hey you,
I know I’m a complete stranger to you but I want you to know that you matter more than you could ever know. I’ve been in a similar place to where you are. I know what it is to feel such profound hopelessness and exhaustion that you don’t know if you can keep going.
I know continuous disappointment, despair and grief that weighs invisibly so heavy upon me. I’ve nearly not stayed.
I hope you can hold on and know that you are worth far more than you could ever comprehend. What can seem like rock bottom and no way through is never the final conclusion. Just a year ago, I had lost my home for the second time, lost my job, and lost entire communities.
I just couldn’t see a way through. Somehow, as life has a strange habit of doing, things turned around. I’ve got hope, I’ve had help and connection (sometimes from the strangest of places) and I no longer feel how I felt even just year ago.
I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me where I’d be a year on from a year ago today. There is hope. So cling on, demand the help you deserve and fight on because I promise you, there is always light and reasons to stay that you may not yet see – but it’s there. I’m so, so grateful you’re here.
With so much love,
Kezia