This is often difficult to embrace. Even if you’re not completely a “everything is either black or white” person, sometimes the sky seems filled with clouds and you can’t spot even a tiny break.

This is why it is so helpful to have a “hope partner” or whatever you want to call it. This person can help “clean your glasses” or can simply look for the breaks in the clouds where there might be hope….despite the fact you can’t see any.

If you listen to that person and trust them (why else would you have picked them to be your “hope partner”?), and keep an open mind, you’ll be able to find something you can grasp onto.

Then your partner can continue to encourage you and help you hold on. The longer you try to see the hope, and the calmer you and your partner can make your nervous system, the clearer the skies will become.