Thank you! It's been amazing to be sharing with the community the last couple months. I'm very much an 'all or nothing' type of person, so I truly value this place where I can just go all-in.

We need people in our lives who can embrace us when we're feeling weak...but those are also the people who can kick us in the ass when we've licked our wounds long enough.

This is soooo worth noting, specifically the loving 'kick in the ass!' It takes a very special person to be willing to give those periodic external pushes. We tend to live in a culture of 'yes men.'

I really like that exercise of "Thank you Thank you Thank you." It very much reminds me of a Buddhist mantra of sorts. I can see how that alone help to make you search for the positive while feeling drowned by the negative.

Keep Smiling and Steem On! :D