"What would you do if you weren't so afraid?"
2019 seemed to crush a lot of us. It weighed upon our hearts heavily as one disaster after another infringed upon our lives. Every day was trying. Every moment spent smiling was exhausting. I’m not sure about you but I spent most of my days hidden away; hoping that by turning into some kind of hermit all the badness in my world would somehow disappear. It didn’t. I lived in a cycle of mania, depression and mundanity. I tried living for my children. I tried living for my husband. I tried living for my family and for my friends. It didn’t work. I spent so many hours flicking through Pinterest and Instagram in those moments of deep depression, trying to find something (or someone) to pull me out of the pit I was so insistent on comfortably nesting in. There were moments where I saw a glimmer of hope – a motivational quote or a funny Instagram video. Before and after pictures of recovery. Houses that once used to be a shell turned into homes filled with light and love and bea...