The other night as I was tucking my darling daughter into bed, I noticed a piece of paper stuck to her wall right next to her head. When I asked her about it she said, "oh that's my good things. When I'm having a hard time, I look at it to remind myself of what is good in my life. I love that she came up with that beautiful coping mechanism on her own, implemented it on her own, and benefitted from it on her own. She has been struggling a lot lately with friend drama at school. I have made a conscious effort to step back and let her work through her issues with God's help instead of mine, and really just be a sounding board more than anything else. So it made my mama heart so proud to see that God had sent her heart there - to gratitude - to grounding in positivity rather than in internalizing the hard.
I left her room so inspired by this sweet daughter of mine and her resiliency.
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