Dear Nichole:

This is a very difficult time for you, but you had difficult times before and survived them. But this time, aim not just at surviving, but at making your life better long term, so that you don’t end up in bad situations again and again, for the rest of your life.

It is time to let go of childhood, of being a little, scared girl waiting for someone to take care of her. Time to see your own self as the adult who is capable of taking care of the girl that you were, the girl inside of you who is scared.

See yourself as two people, the adult Nichole, strong, capable and the child Nichole, weak and incapable. Take care of this scared, little girl. She needs someone-

and that someone is you.

anita