Brianna Gomez

Rock bottom really does force honesty with yourself and it forces you to look at things

things that are no longer working.

It exposes those hidden things in your life that maybe you would have ignored but were slowly eating away at your self-worth or your happiness or your success.

Now you can see things for what they truly are.

When people are at rock bottom, they lose old identities.

They lose relationships that are not good for them.

They lose their comfort zone.

They lose their ego.

Think of not losing these things, but shedding them, but leaving them behind.

Because the truth about life in general is that nothing that is meant for you will ever pass you by.

And you need to accept the fact that in certain seasons, things are going to leave your life.

You have to have a certain level of detachment with things and recognize the fact that if something leaves my life, it is for a reason.

And when something is in my life, it serves a purpose in that season that doesn't mean I have to cling on to it forever.

And when you hit rock bottom, oftentimes you feel like you're at rock bottom because too many things are changing too quickly.

Everything is leaving and you didn't expect it.

Sometimes the things that we need are not always the things that we expect.

For example, when I was getting out of a toxic relationship,

I did not feel like I was on top of the world.

I did not feel like it was something that was going to be good for me at the time because it's hard to recognize it.

When you've been stuck in a pattern for so long and you convince yourself that it's better that way and that you're happier that way, you won't see the benefit of leaving it behind, of shedding that old skin.