There comes a point in every major transformation where you no longer recognize the person you used to be, but you haven't yet become the person you're working toward. It's an unsettling place to stand, but it’s also intensely exciting.

It's your personal blank canvas. What you become next is yours to paint.

When pain feels unbearable, the answer is still love. When the world around us crumbles into chaos, the answer is love. When darkness becomes all encompassing, enticing us to collapse into it, to get lost in it, the answer is still love, because love is more powerful than darkness will ever be.

But love has to be chosen consciously.

It’s the hard thing that gets procrastinated on, day after day.

The heavy feeling that pushes you further into the couch.

The doubt in your mind that makes you not want to leave bed in the morning.

In order to learn how to weather what’s difficult, resilience can be practiced through discipline. This becomes a skill, which becomes habit and eventually grows into an inseparable part of who you are. You build yourself every day, choosing who you get to become through your relationship with discipline.