HEALTH, WELLBEING.

Hope and Struggle.

Maybe we are united more by our struggles than we are by our successes.’ It is ordinary and inevitable that we will encounter struggle. It is a shared encounter to which none of us are immune. Often struggle sits silently, unshared and unspoken. Encased in a layer of shame and guilt. A potentially alienating weight we carry.

Life not a linear path to certainty, it is a messy figuring. Struggle- the bodies literal way of stimulating growth, context and meaning. Brene Brown eloquently alludes to how struggle shapes us, and its purpose- “Hope is the function of struggle”.

26/06/2025.

By Helen Coutts.

References and Further Reading.

Brown Brene, 2012, Daring Greatly. How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead, Penguin Publishing, USA.

Image. Kim Verdebo.

Image Kim Verdebo.