♥ Hope & Wellness
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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♥ Hope & Wellness
Hope is the one thing that helped me find answers to my problems. "Never give up" had become a practice even when my addiction/mental health hit the bottom time and time again. With depression hope seems far away yet when hope becomes an attitude I eventually found a peaceful way to live. With DBT, psy drugs, being Buddhist-ish , Alcohol harm reduction, and finally cultivating some emotional maturity, I manage many ascents of my life peacefully well and with tons of gratitude.
Blessed Be
P.S. Glad to be back at SR
Blessed Be
P.S. Glad to be back at SR
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I like Emily Dickinson's take on Hope. 
By Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
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