The Hope Muscle

✨𝙄’𝙢 💯 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙃 𝙊 𝙋 𝙀 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙚 ✨⁣

To tend it just like we would any other part of ourselves- with love, with care, with pushing our edges + with challenging ourselves to go deeper into it so we can strengthen it.⁣

Because a strong Hope muscle?⁣

✨It can move mountains that feel insurmountable ⁣

✨It can pull us out of our darkest days⁣

✨It can remind us there is SO much more than the chaos we are currently confronting⁣

✨It can heal us when we feel oh so tired + worn out from All.The.Things.⁣

✨And it can bring us closer to that elusive but utterly transformative place of F A I T H that it will all work out.⁣⁣

But what if you aren’t feeling much Hope lately to even get there?⁣

In my experience we ALL have at least one area where we DO have confidence that we’ve ‘got this’- even if we’ve lost hope in other or maybe bigger places.

For you it could be work or how you parent or your physical practices or writing or your art or how you do friendship or ANYTHING where you know you have it handled.⁣

Let that be your anchor. ⁣

Let that be your driving force. ⁣

Let that build you up by remembering just how GOOD it feels when you are in the flow + rooted in that thing.⁣

That’s confidence. That’s hope. That’s your springboard to feel it in the areas where you need to strengthen that muscle. ⁣

When you feel it there, take a mental, physical, energetic snapshot. Remember how it FEELS to know you can not only handle it, but great things can come from it in your life. ⁣

Commit it to memory. Feel it on your bones. Breathe it in deep.⁣

Then take that feeling + bring it to the areas you DON’T feel hopeful. DON’T trust will work out ok. DON’T have faith in {quite yet}.⁣

𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮. 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚. ⁣

Even if it scares you. Even if you are convinced it will never get better. Even if Hope feels a million miles away.⁣

Because it’s never as far away as we think. ⁣

Hope is always right here- waiting for us to throw up our hands + say ‘I’m ready to play’⁣

So it can come in + work it’s magic ✨