SURVIVOR STRENGTHS

DISCLAIMER: THESE METHODS ARE NOT APPROVED MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID INTERVENTIONS. THEY MAY VERY WELL BE THE RANTINGS OF A MAD WOMAN; THEY SHOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED If ANY GENTLER AND KINDER METHODS ARE EVEN REMOTELY AVAILABLE;

BUT, STILL,

There is SOMETHING I must tell YOU about SURVIVOR STRENGTHS.

Because, sometimes, when the kind friend is unavailable, when the emergency services do not arrive, when the waiting list in interminable, or, when the help that is offered is so woefully inadequate it leaves you feeling worse; When your hands cannot grip any longer and the safety net is on fire, you may need to know that there is something else....

I would like to say you can rely on this. You cannot. This terrain is dangerous and not all of us survive, but SOME of us DO. And , within our scars, there is power. It is the power that walks through FIRE, that, if it has to, swims through mud. Some of us know what it is to fashion a life raft from our own desperation, to FALL and find power in the unfurling ferocity of our wings. Don't think I'm saying this is pretty. It is not. DO know that I know what I speak of and, in the deep beat of the human heart, I offer you the access code to an indestructible source of Love.

So, should you find yourself on the precipice betwixt despair and desperation; Should CBT seem stupid or the Community Mental Health team take too long; take these wild jewels from my hands, place them into your ripped and ragged, yet, still beating heart, and, simply, refuse to die.

Refuse to die because we are not the ones who should be leaving.

And, tho you do not believe it, you have not yet used up your allocation of joy.

REPEAT: DISCLAIMER: THESE METHODS ARE NOT APPROVED MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID INTERVENTIONS. THEY MAY WELL BE THE RANTINGS OF A MAD WOMAN; THEY SHOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED If ANY GENTLER AND KINDER METHODS ARE EVEN REMOTELY AVAILABLE;

BUT, STILL,

There are things deeper, and higher and wilder than the worst that life can show us..... & I believe in YOU........ and now you know. 

 

Chrystine Moon Jan 2019