Finding Your Way Through Hardship

Hardship is something that can be considered anything strenuous or taxing of mind and body. Perhaps this hardship is an unfortunate event that transpired in your life such as an unexpected death, a divorce, losing a job. This type of hardship can weigh on your emotional health. It can weigh you down physically. It can disrupt your whole life. Hope can seem too far away to grasp in your life when something occurs like that. So what can you do about it?

1. Control of you. Due to hardship in your life, there is a lot you cannot control. How you move forward is something you can control.
2. Choice. Hardship does happen. You still have a choice in how you respond to others, by action and by deed.
3. Recognize hardship happens to you and others. What you might want to remember is that this happens to everyone, at one time or another. You are not alone.
4. Reach out. During this time when you feel as if no one is listening, or you do not know who can help. Reach out to those closest to you. It is okay to talk about your difficulty.

These four things are significant in improving how you can deal with hardship. We all face this. The more we know and the more we communicate with others will lead to you being able to begin to plan for a future in a new and sometimes unexpected way. If we are in too deep we will not be able to see the doors opening for different opportunities. These opportunities are often doors you thought might never open.

Take a deep breath, exhale, and prepare for your new journey. Hardship might still happen, but with new direction and a plan you have control, you are not alone, and this will be the first step in giving hardship the shove off.