Learning to Sit With the Hard Stuff

There are moments in life when the weight of what you carry feels almost unbearable. The instinct is to push it away, to distract yourself, to find anything that will make the heaviness disappear. But I have learned that sometimes the only way forward is to stop running and sit with it.

Sitting with the hard stuff does not mean that you enjoy it or that you want it to last. It means you give yourself permission to feel it, to name it, and to let it move through you instead of pretending it is not there. There is strength in staying present with what hurts, because it allows you to grow into the kind of person who can handle the storms that come.

When you sit with the hard stuff, you often find that it does not destroy you. It shapes you. It stretches you in ways that are uncomfortable, but it also deepens your understanding of yourself. You start to realize that what once felt impossible to face becomes part of your story of resilience.