#invictustribe

I knew 10 years ago that my life wasn't easy. I knew I deserved better. I had quite learned the most important part... That wasn't going to change anything. No one was coming to save me. No one was going to do it for me. No one would get it even if I told them everything. They would see it their way, not mine. I had to own me because no one else knew my life. But I did. Life begins to change when you cross paths with self-awareness and self-realization. You start to get what it really means to have gone through hardship. It's the beginning of creating a real future. It's the beginning of the life you aren't afraid of looking back on. If I had know all that I would become. Maybe I would have welcomed all the hardship that came to me. Maybe I would trust the process. Looking back, I admire the courage of who I used to be just long enough to realize I've become an even greater 4example of what I have attempted to create my whole life: A good man. Potential is only realized by moving forward despite it all. No success nor failure determines what happens next in life. Only you do. #DefyTheDarkness #DylanSessler #NoOneFightsAlone #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #IAmAVoice #potential #goodman #goodpeople #goodperson#success #failure #selfawareness #selfrealization #nevergiveup #neverquit #life #motivation #inspiration (at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmjbTIH-4v/?utm_medium=tumblr

I have fought so many battles that people don't understand. This one may be the hardest one yet. There are no words that can explain it. People don't know how to talk about it. They apologize and stay silent. The silence is deafening but the defeat is silent. How do you express this loss? So many live everyday with the silent loss of miscarriage. How many mothers and fathers out there have lost a child before they were ever introduced to their face? Something as common as it is feels so... hidden. "The things we keep silent are the ones that destroy us." I remember saying this to clients, friends, even soldiers. Now I had to choose whether to remain silent or not. Hardship touches all. Silence does not have to follow suit. I must live the example I set for others. You don't have to speak your hardest moments on social media, but I beg you, have the courage to share with the ones you trust. Process with them. Learn with them. Grieve with them. Vulnerability may feel weak but I promise you it is the path to a strength that cannot be compared to what came before. As I process all of this myself, I hope you see a path forward as I do. Life is hard and even when you are at your best it will strike you down. Never quit on yourself. Feel and stand true, do not let your love of life fade because you have lost. Let the light of those who have passed carry forth your purpose and passion for life. I see you as you see me. #dylansessler #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusTribe #InvictusNation #fathersday #happyfathersday #happyfatherday #father #fathersday #miscarriage #miscarriageawareness #miscarriagesupport #loss #grief #hardship #grieving #iseeyou #solemn #painful (at Brookfield, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWy2senKvV/?utm_medium=tumblr

Listen, you want to live. You may not feel like it right now but there is an instinct deep within yourself that wants to survive. At some point, that instinct takes over when your mind can't do it anymore. Your body wants to live, that's what it's designed for. If your mind doesn't match your instinct, my experience tells me there was someone that changed how you view yourself. Far too often, I see people live in environments where they are told or shown that they are not valued. When you don't feel valued, you don't feel like living. That's the reality of suicide in today's society, it's the result. Bad people aren't going to change because you have feelings. You may have to open yourself up to the reality that their opinion is the thing that has no value. Stop trusting the opinions of people that didn't prove themselves worthy. Trust your body because it has carried you through it all even though you have hated it, hurt it, and given up on it time and time again. Now is your time to make up for all that. Trust the part of you that has never given up. #dylansessler #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusTribe #InvictusNation #body #trust #trauma #value #live #nevergiveup #keepliving #trusting #environment #traumabond #unstable #lifecoachingtips #lifecoach #mentalhealthcoach #trustyourself #loveyourself #opinion #instinct #badpeople (at Brookfield, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNp2ytunX20/?igshid=19hlp19u844s5

Are you working on your mental health? Overcoming trauma? Losing weight? Working towards financial freedom? Building a business? ______ It's hard isn't it? You've probably failed already. It's a difficult job to take care of yourself but guess what... You're the only one that will do it for you. ______ You may have to lose a thousand times in order to win. Stop giving up. Stop letting the inevitability of failure break your will to find success. Get up, dust yourself off and learn something. ______ #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #failure #success #trauma #weightloss #business #entrepreneur #fail #failed #selflove #dontgiveup #nevergiveup #dontquit #right #wrong (at Brookfield, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKaPMXen2kt/?igshid=1n63oo65t6v2t

Nike didn't make this a slogan for no reason. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you're comfortable. What matters is you get it done. Some days you won't want to but you make that decision at your own discretion. You don't do the work, you know you'll be disappointed at the end of the day. ______ #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #nike #justdoit #goforit #work #dowork #werk #choice #sacrifice #comfortable #uncomfortable #workethic (at Brookfield, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJkT9BHHXt4/?igshid=1pkuvv7xxozsz

If you want to be a problem solver then you must understand how to functionally process what you can change and what you can't. You can evaluate a problem for years if you really want to. Why sit with a problem for that long? Evaluating the problem with the intent to isolate what you can change gives a clear path to a solution. If you attempt to tackle a problem too large, there is often no simple solution. The burden, quite literally, is too large for one person to bare. Isolate what you can change and let go of the rest. Your attention is finite, use it on things that can be solved. When you look at problems, how do you see them? ______ #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #problems #problem #problemsolving #solve #solution #evaluate #isolate #action #act #change #intent #intention #mindfulness #mindset #mindsetiseverything #integrity #changeyourmindset #problemsolver (at Janesville, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuiGLenGIl/?igshid=1w8dodb972ntk

Inspire yourself by making the right thing a NECESSITY rather than an option. Your Integrity then becomes your inspiration rather than searching for validation from others. Do what is Right. _______ #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #integrity #courage #right #wrong #fear #necessity #validation #positive #positivity #inspire #inspirationalquotes #inspiration #motivation #motivate #rightandwrong (at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGh0r9tnpj0/?igshid=y1o0xa1ncvsc

Rewrite your story. You can't find happiness if you can't see the power within what you've overcome. Your purpose will change throughout your life, but at your lowest, your purpose will always fall back on simply staying alive. You grow your perspective with every moment of struggle. Don't let it jade you, let it empower you. If you don't know how, go read. Go listen. Go watch. There is someone somewhere that has overcome the moments you've faced. It's up to you to find a way forward. ________ #DefyTheDarkness #NoOneFightsAlone #IAmAVoice #InvictusNation #InvictusTribe #rewrite #rewriteyourstory #story #stories #life #survive #surviving #survival #perspective #experiencelife #experience #purpose #empower #empowering #read #listen #watch #learn #overcome #happiness (at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVH6WVHVJs/?igshid=xs3w99aafilv