Hey there, it's week three going strong. I hope it's week three in your clearing mental clutter mini course. And so week one was all about getting honest with ourselves. Week two was all about simplifying our lives when we're able to see things more clearly. And then week three is our getting hopeful that there's more out there for us. And maybe what's in front of us right now.
So when we think about this idea that I am hopeful, say that to yourself with me, I am hopeful or getting our hopes up. It's our understanding that we have potential that we may not even see right now, that race has something to offer us that we may not have yet got our hands on. Get excited about that. Get your hopes up about that. And so when I think about some of the things that I've jotted for you In regards to hopeful, it's not believing that better is possible. It's that believing that when we step into the truth, that is our lives, that we can really open ourselves to the abundance that life has rained for us.
So during this week, I really want to encourage you to get your hopes up, I think about for me and my rice. And because I spent so much of my life in an addiction, there came a point towards the end of I see my addiction when I fully and truly stepped into recovery. And then in recovery, where I really on a daily basis, had to get my hopes up. I started saying to myself in the mirror on a daily basis and hourly basis even there has to be more for me. There has to be more for me than living this life this way. And then when we lost our daughter, and it was catastrophic for me, I felt broken, I felt hollow, having that little rice ripped out of me no longer for me to care for.
And I didn't know what to do with that. And after a few weeks, I had a pivotal internal kind of personal intervention. And I started to remember that I had to get my hopes up, that I had to believe that there was good in what had happened to me so tragically, and I was hopeful that there was a lesson in this I was hopeful that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. I had to believe that and so I'm not sure where you are in your life right now. But if you're feeling a little put off, by getting hopeful, I want you to go back two weeks once affirmation about giving honest and then week twos affirmation about simplifying that idea of reducing of stepping back, because when we get hopeful, it means that we believe we believe that there's a potential for us That there's something amazing waiting for us that we have what it takes.
And we just have to continue to show up with that affirmation every single day. And I promise you because I am living from service, that affirmation will ring true, you will wake up and you will look in the mirror and you will believe that wow, I'm worse than I am worth it. There is something amazing out there for me or that's something amazing is right there in front of me smack in my face. And I am going to take advantage of that. So the title of this course was clearing mental clutter for a reason we need to get out of here and into here. We need to start seeing things as they actually are in order for us to propel ourselves to that next step in next phase in our life, wherever and whatever that is.
Alright, so I want to encourage you to show up every single day with this affirmation. Work on the journaling pages. I handcrafted those personally For you, and continue to get onto your mat just for those short little snippets that are created for you because one poses yoga, and hopefully that will help you in those next steps and next stages of your journey, from my heart to yours from my soul to yours. It's been a pleasure now to say