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How To Find Hope When You Feel Hopeless
Light a candle during moments of darkness.
Last year, I went through one of the darkest moments of my life.
My mom had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I was completely powerless to do anything to fix the situation. I felt hopeless.
Feelings of anxiety quickly began to increase. And within a matter of weeks, I found myself struggling to fall asleep. I also passed out in the middle of the Calgary public library due to fatigue, stress, and various other things. That obviously wasn’t great.
For a long time, I felt hopeless. I didn’t think a better future was possible. It was as if I hit rock bottom and was unable to stand up due to an enormous weight being forced onto my shoulders. Life sucked.
But one day, I looked in the mirror and said to myself that I had enough. It was time for things to change. So I began implementing several strategies that enabled me to go from hopeless to hopeful.
Here they are:
Practice The Stoic Concept of Amor Fati.
One day, I was sitting in the library wondering what the hell I was going to do with my life. I felt like I tried everything. Yet, for some reason, nothing seemed to work. But after having a nervous…
