Remembering the Sun: Finding Hope in Dark Seasons
When life feels like an endless winter—cold, dark, and relentless—it can be difficult to believe that warmth and light will ever return. If you’ve spent weeks, months, or years in survival mode, constantly battling stress, loss, and uncertainty, your nervous system may have forgotten what safety and ease feel like. The fight-or-flight response becomes a way of being, making it nearly impossible to imagine a future where life feels good again.
Just as winter gives way to spring, and summer inevitably follows, so too will the difficult seasons of your life. The pain, fear, and exhaustion you feel now are not permanent. There will be days when the weight lifts, when joy finds its way back to you, when the sun shines again. Even if you can’t see it yet, that future exists.
The key is holding on—reminding yourself, even in the midst of darkness, that light still belongs to you. Rest when you can. Find small moments of peace. Trust that no storm lasts forever. The sun will return. And when it does, you’ll step into its warmth with a heart that has grown wiser, stronger, and more resilient than ever before.
Keep going. Summer awaits. 🌿✨
