If you haven’t already read part one, please check it out here. It started with a phone call. Tackling things on my own hadn’t exactly been working out, so I needed a new way to stay on track and be held accountable. It didn’t take long to find and reach out to someone whose words really resonated with me. Someone who made sense of things in a way I couldn’t. Someone who showed me that things didn’t have to be so bleak. During that initial phone call, I laid out everything that I knew needed to change, including my lack of direction in knowing where to start. I was (perhaps…

It was hard to notice the changes that had taken place, because day to day, little seemed different. I was tired, but it was more than just that. Everything was always being viewed through a pessimistic lens, and it was starting to wear on me. I was completely exhausted. Drained. Depleted. Constant feelings of negativity had left me feeling trapped, with no way out. It had become so easy to blame bad days on any- and everything external. For too long, I let outside factors affect me to the point where they had completely rewritten how I viewed things (that must be where “we see things as we are, not…