Call it hard times or a rough patch, call it whatever you want but how do you get through it? How do you get to the other side when every breath you take is painful and threatens to choke you.

How do you survive?

How do you begin to thrive?

What do you do when the thought of another day is crushing and you’re barely hanging on?

These are the moments that make us real, not the happy shiny hearts and flowers. It’s pain that defines