10/02/2026
𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕀𝕗 𝕋𝕣𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕞 ℕ𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟?
Feeling stuck, sucks.
You're going round in circles -
Again.
Frustrated -
Exhausted -
Disempowered -
Empty.
You try to over-ride it -
Try harder to feel better -
To feel different -
To make things different.
But you fail.
Again.
So you try something else -
Try harder in a different way -
Knowing deep down, how it will end -
But telling yourself if you just try that bit harder
You'll get a different result.
So this time when you fail -
Which you do,
The frustration is greater -
The hurt is deeper -
The shame is darker -
The voices shout louder.
Because
The thing no one tells you
Is that trying harder is not the way out -
Its a trap -
A prison you construct around yourself.
It confines you -
Restricts your freedom -
Dictates in its judgemental tone that you should be better at this by now -
You shouldn't be where you are -
Not at your age, with all you know -
You should have learned how to avoid this by now
Yet here you are -
Stuck again in the same repeating cycle.
But, what if instead of trying harder this time,
You stopped?
What if you loosened your grip -
Just for a moment?
What if you
Unclench your jaw -
Drop your shoulders
Breathe deeply into your belly
Slowly
Fully -
Right now.
And again.
And once more.
What if instead of trying so hard,
You chose to make space -
To allow -
To let go of trying all together?
What if you chose softness instead of force?
Trust instead of control -
What then?
Try it -
You might just turn around to find the cell door is open. ❤️