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Find Strength in Your Story

Find Strength in Your Story

A client contribution 


by Lisa Jones

 

Find strength in your story

For it is only yours to tell

Your words, your wisdom

Of a time spent unwell

 

Forgo the fear of judgement

Don’t brush over the woes

It’s important that they hear this

The world needs to know

 

That recovery feels like

Everything, all at once

Triumphs, tribulations

A cruel sucker punch

 

But let them know it does get better

As impossible as it may seem

Once life a nightmare

Can again become a dream

 

Put the pain onto paper

Type out your tears

And soon you may find

That those lingering fears

 

Of judgement, of stigma

Of being lesser than

Could not compare to the feeling

Of realising you can

 

Be loud and proud

Take up space and express

What you wish you’d told yourself

When you thought you were less.

 

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