The Lighthouse Project

Because you are! You’re here! You’ve survived! Well done! ~ ~ ~

Recovery is a process.

It’s important to remember that it’s not going to happen overnight. When we break a bone, we have to keep it in the cast until it heals; we don’t get to take it off because it’s starting to feel better. The same is applied to mental health. Healing takes time - slow progress is better than no progress.

However long it takes, with however many slip ups along the way, it WILL get better in the end, as long as you keep fighting, even if it doesn’t feelmlike it at the moment.

Something that was said to me that really resonated was that recovery isn’t a race, it’s a marathon. Wherever your goal lines are, the object isn’t to get there as fast as you can but to just get there, you’re not in competition with anyone

Nothing happens over night

And sometimes you have a relapse after a long time of being in recovery

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither are you.  It takes time, patience, and work to get better.  You can do it!

I needed this

reminder: you can start over at anytime. your day is not ruined. your world is not over. take a deep breath. start over.