(((hugs)))
How can I encourage you? Well, I can tell you how I felt, and how I feel now.
I left a nice house and a financially secure life, to move into a small apartment where I can hear the neighbor's downstairs ask "where's the barbecue sauce?" and I work two jobs and pray every day before I try to start my old car... and I have an inner peace and happiness that I lacked for 20 years.
I won't lie to you -- it has been hard. But it has been worth it. Every bit of it.