Time and space are funny things. The further away from something you are, the harder it is to remember how or why it felt so all-encompassing, so consuming and never-ending.

Things that can feel like the end of the world, like you’ll never be free from them or be able to get away from, someday will just be tiny flecks in the story of your life.

I remember sobbing on the office floor next to someone’s desk and thinking this was it, I was never going to be free from my controlling and manipulative ex, that he would never let me go, or he would ruin my life in the process. Now I look back and can’t get my head around that reaction. I can’t comprehend how a live chat ticket left on my company’s website could send me spiralling down so low. But it did. And in that moment it seemed like the only reaction to have.

So trust me when I say that it might not feel like it right now, but someday this truly shitty day/week/month/year will seem like a blip on the map. You might not remember how you got there, or how you got away, but you did, and you will.

You’ve got this.

You are stronger than you think, and you’ll be stronger than you could ever imagine because of the things you have gone through.

Life’s a bitch sometimes, but you’ve got to just ride that wave until you either see a jumping-off point or you crash into the depths and claw yourself back out again, but either way, you will get back to the shore, and there will be brighter days ahead.