How To Pull Yourself Through A Rough Patch

[Hawkeye]

Picture yourself at a happier place in the future. Let your future self encourage you; let her say, "I know it's hard, but you made it. You'll get through this. We're HERE now." Then someday, when you get to that place, make sure to look ba...ck and say to you, back here, back THEN, "I know it's hard, but you made it. You'll get through this. We're HERE now." Then give yourself a hug across those years. Then you'll always know that YOU have your back.

PS: That's how I got through the worst of the long, sweltering hungover days at the metal shop where I worked. I pictured myself clocking out at 5PM, and saying to myself, "See? It's over. You do make it eventually." And I'd always be sure to reach back to the 8AM guy while I was clocking out and tell him the same.

It works

I call them "time markers."

[iaminspired]

I will tell myself, it will be over. It can't get any worse! In the next step the only way is up.

As long as I persevere, I will reach the end of the tunnel. There will be light. The moment I give up, I will die in the tunnel.

[Lion~*]

I can pull myself into the future... and I know I will make it and can encourage myself... for myself in both directions and I get what you say.... I still seek that which can even possibly console the inconsolable... that tiny * in* that has no out.