Healing Affirmations: My Difficulties Are Real & Valid

This affirmation meditation gently affirms a truth many people forget during hard times: your difficulties are real, and they deserve understanding — not dismissal.

Inspired by insights from Reuben's course, This Tough Life, this practice encourages a kinder relationship with inner experience, helping you step out of mental struggle and into acknowledgement.

You don’t need to convince your mind or minimise your pain to move forward.

Validation itself can be stabilising, grounding, and deeply healing.

Light emotive music flows quietly beneath the affirmations, supporting emotional release and helping the body feel safer as difficult feelings are met with compassion rather than resistance.

Helpful for stress relief, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, self-doubt, trauma-informed healing, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, self-compassion, and getting through tough times one gentle step at a time.

Transcript

Welcome to this affirmations practice.

Letting your body relax and these affirmations can be here for you to remind you of your strength,

Your humanity and the power of kind awareness.

I choose to listen to these words.

This is an act of kindness.

I choose to be there for myself just a little more.

This is a moment of safety.

My feelings are not weaknesses,

They are signs of my humanity.

Even when I feel misunderstood,

I am not truly alone.

Others sometimes don't fully know my struggle,

But my experience is valid.

Somewhere there are other people who would understand my journey,

They know what it's like.

My struggles are real and my pain is valid.

It is ok that healing takes time,

I don't need to rush.

I allow myself to feel held by something greater than me.

Whether it is love,

Life or this quiet presence within me.

Healing is not linear,

It's supposed to feel like backward steps sometimes.

Even in heavy moments,

A spark of strength lives within me.

My struggles are real and my pain is valid.

It is ok that healing takes time,

I don't need to rush.

I allow myself to feel held by something greater than me.

I choose to allow my story to unfold with gentleness and care.

Reviews

Thank you so much for this. I’m not feeling well today and I always feel guilty for having to miss work to recover, but at the same time, I can’t pour from an empty cup, so taking care of myself is the best option… I need to give myself grace and focus on my healing. Then I can get back to life and take care of everything else. Thank you. 🙏🏻

I am learning
that my experience is valid.
My struggles are real
and my pain is valid
I have a strength that I never knew I had for my difficulties, my pain.
I am learning and growing.
Thank you for a lovely meditation.
🙏

Hello Reuben!! My favourite morning prayer!! It was just perfect for the message you conveyed in this beautiful offering. It meant so much to me to hear what you had to say. Reuben. Thank you forever❤️💕.