Dear Nichole:

You are strong, resilient, that has been proven. You can  make it through this hard time. Think of this, if you will: there are people stuck in 5′ by 10′ cells, in prisons, 19 hours a day, maybe more. Every day, week after week, year after year with no way out. Their sentence is life in prison, no possibility of parole. Nothing they can do to get out.

Now look at where you are right now, think of it as a prison cell for now. Do what those prisoners do, survive it today, and the night to come and the day after, but unlike the life prisoners, you have a way out, what a relief! As a matter of fact, you can do this morning what none of them can do, you can get outside your room when you want to, that kind of freedom is available to you.

Make this day your New Beginning, out of that prison cell, step by step.

anita