You pulled through.
My name's Ruben and welcome to this practice,
A reflective practice.
It's about acknowledging the times that you've pulled through.
Our brains don't like to give us the credit for those times that we've pulled through.
The things that we've done,
The qualities that we have shown,
Our inner strength that has come through in those times.
And this is so important to do because when we can open up to it and acknowledge it,
It will help us for future moments,
For when times are tough.
And despite what society tells us,
Social media,
The things that we pick up,
Everybody struggles.
Everybody goes through tough times,
Struggling with their thoughts and feelings.
It's not just you.
It's part of the human condition.
Let's get into this.
So allow yourself to think back to a moment when you were going through a tough time.
And this could be something that was just two weeks ago.
But it could also be something that was two years or 20 years ago.
And at the time when it happened,
It would have felt like it was out of your control.
In the very moment when we're caught up in a struggle,
That's often how things feel.
Like it's completely out of our control.
You got through this situation.
What did you need to make it to the other side?
What did it take to do this?
And there may have been times when you knew what the right decision was deep down in your heart,
Your intuitions.
But then your thoughts might have contradicted that.
So you could have been going from one thing to the other and back to the other.
Sometimes you might have had to make space for the thoughts that contradicted what your heart said.
And maybe you gave up at times.
We all do this.
We just stop maybe to get the well-deserved rest that our body needs.
Maybe because we just feel like giving up.
This is normal.
This is part of the human condition.
Some days are worse than others.
And there can be so many factors involved,
Not just because of the tough time at that moment that we're going through,
But through lack of sleep,
Stress,
Interpersonal things that are going on.
And yet,
Even though you struggled at times and maybe gave up at times,
And it seemed foggy or confusing,
There would have been those little moments of clarity.
Where you helped yourself pull through.
Because you were there for you.
You made it.
You got to the other side.
You pulled through.
