This week my head has been full of all things related to summer, the sun and the solstice. It is a time of year that I particularly love and brings out my more spiritual and calm side. While the solstice marks the longest day of the year, for me, the reminder of a light that never dies and returns to us every day is a powerful reminder of hope.

I have a tattoo of a sunrise on my inner left arm. It sits as a permanent reminder that every day is a new day and every day will bring us something different. We are given a new beginning every 24 hours which is filled with opportunity.

When I think about people who suffer with depression and feel a total darkness surround them, I can relate to that lack of hope that anything will ever look bright again. When we find ourselves in that dark, hopeless space it can feel almost impossible to imagine any glimmer of light coming through.

This always makes me think about the darkest hour of the night when there is absolutely no light in the sky at all. How does if feel to sit in the darkness? To me, it feels suffocating and brings on a sense of panic. Will I ever be able to breathe again? Will I ever see any hope?

And yet, even after that most darkest of hours, the sun rises, sometimes at 4am, like this morning, and sometimes at 8am in the depths of winter. But it always rises and lets in some light. There is a permanence to that act. We can trust that it will always happen, every single day.

Today’s light is different to yesterday’s light. It brings something new that maybe was not there before and that, right there, is what we can hang hope on to. If we let it in, the new light gives us an opportunity.

In my dark hours, and we all have them, I can look down and see that reminder that better days will come and we are just sitting in temporary darkness. My clients will see that on my arm if they need to and it is also embodied in my logo. Everything I care about is encapsulated in that one daily affirmation that since the beginning of time, we have been given the hope of light in the darkness.

For me, I find comfort in knowing that there is one thing in life that I can trust in: that every day the sun will rise.

Happy Summer Solstice.

 

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