What To Do When Life Goes South
When everything seems hopeless, remember you are not helpless.
It’s probably fair to say we’ve all been there at some point or another.
The first 38 years of my life felt like a never-ending roller coaster. But of those, the latter 10 years felt more like that roller coaster was on a one-way track into the abyss.
Here’s a quick summary of those latter 10 years.
The closest person in the world to me, my brother, died. I got dragged through the courts for six years. My employer asked me to leave because they were not prepared to grant more time off. I was unemployed for an uncomfortable while.
I was in a terribly toxic relationship for 6 years. My health kept declining — I had a seizure, back surgery, chronic fatigue, just to name a few. My grandmother died. My mother died.
I was told the day before my wedding that the groom wasn’t coming. I was in a toxic work environment. And I was betrayed by people I’d known for most of my life.
I definitely felt like life was going/had gone south.
I was exhausted and felt bitter, disappointed, frustrated and angry. Most of all I felt hopeless.
