3 Ways to Keep Hope Alive When You Are Tired of Trying
- Brainz Magazine
- 5 days ago
- 6 min read
Ramona Robinson, founder of RoRa Hypnosis, blends personal resilience with professional expertise, guiding individuals on transformative paths. Drawing from diverse life experiences, including triumphs over cancer, she helps them rediscover the joy and vitality of life, reclaiming strength with newfound resilience and hope.
You are not meant to give up here. Hope is easy when life is good. When you are surrounded by evidence that good things are possible. When you are loved, seen, and valued, hope feels natural. Effortless, even. But what about when life breaks your heart? What about when the dreams collapse, when the people leave, when the world shows its crueler face?
That is when hope stops feeling light.
It starts feeling heavy.
Like a weight you have been carrying for so long that your arms ache, and your heart does too.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier to let it go. To stop wanting.
To stop trying.
To stop believing.
Because holding on, when everything inside you is tired of holding, can hurt more than giving up ever could.
And yet.
Some part of you refuses to let go.
Some small, stubborn ember inside you keeps burning, even when everything else feels broken. Even when you are angry at it.
Even when you wish it would go silent, just so you could finally stop hurting.
It keeps whispering to you,
You can have this. You want this. Somehow, somewhere, it is still here.
And because it is still whispering, still calling, you keep going.
You keep trying.
You keep reaching toward the thing your heart still aches for.
You may feel like you are barely hanging on.
You may be absolutely exhausted.
You may feel like you have nothing left to give.
But the fact that you are still here, still breathing, still hoping even when it hurts, means you are carrying a strength greater than you know.
If you are tired, if you are broken, if you are barely holding on, this is for you.
Here are three ways to keep hope alive, even when life has done everything it could to make you stop.
1. Let hope grow smaller, and still be enough
When you are tired of trying, hope does not have to be grand.
You do not have to believe in perfect endings, sweeping miracles, or fairy-tale recoveries.
You only have to believe in something small.
That you can breathe through the next moment.
That tomorrow might hold one unexpected kindness.
That somewhere, even if you cannot see it yet, something gentle is still waiting for you.
When big dreams feel impossible, small hopes are enough.
Tiny hopes are still hopes.
They are not less sacred because they are smaller.
In fact, they might be even more sacred, because they are what set you apart from the world that gives up too soon.
The world that settles for less, even when some part of them knows they were meant for more.
This is not you.
You are not here to settle.
You are here to stay open to the life that is still trying to find you, even if all you can hold right now is a single breath, a single flicker, a single step forward.
You do not have to conquer mountains today.
You only have to take one step.
One breath.
One whispered promise that this moment is not the end of your story.
2. Let yourself be tired, and still be worthy
You were never meant to be endlessly strong.
You were never meant to move through every heartbreak without flinching.
If your heart feels tired, let it be tired. If you are exhausted, let yourself rest.
You do not have to shame yourself for feeling worn down.
You do not have to scold yourself for grieving, for struggling, for wanting to lay it all down for a while.
Tiredness is not weakness.
It is not proof you are failing.
It is proof you are still trying, even after everything that tried to take the hope out of you.
A tired heart is not a broken heart.
It is a heart that has carried weight after weight and still beats on.
It is a heart that has dared to reach for things bigger than what it has yet received.
Letting yourself be tired does not mean you have given up.
It means you are telling the truth about how much it has cost you to keep going.
And honoring that cost is part of honoring your own strength.
You can rest without quitting.
You can grieve without giving up.
You can pause without abandoning the life still waiting for you.
Hope is not about being invincible.
It is about being human, tired, aching, fragile, and still carrying the faint ember of belief inside you, even when you feel like you cannot carry yourself.
Rest when you must.
Lay your heart down for a while if you need to.
But do not shame it for being tired.
It got you this far.
And it is not done yet.
3. Remember: This darkness is not your home
When pain stays long enough, it tries to convince you it will stay forever.
When the road feels endless, it tries to whisper that there is no road beyond this one.
When hope grows heavy, it can feel like the weight will never lift.
It is so easy, in the middle of the hardest places, to wonder,
"Is this all there is? Is this all I am allowed to have?"
But hear this, even if you doubt it:
This moment, this heartbreak, this exhaustion, this ache, is not the whole story.
It is not the final word.
It is not the end of you.
You have lived through dark seasons before.
You have survived moments when you thought you could not.
You have stood at edges before and kept breathing anyway.
And even if you cannot see it from here, there is still life ahead of you that you have not yet touched.
There are still mornings you have not woken into.
Still songs you have not heard.
Still people you have not loved.
Still dreams that have not yet recognized your name.
You are not trapped.
You are in between.
You are crossing a place that feels endless but is not.
And here is the truth your pain does not want you to remember:
If you were not meant for more, your heart would not be longing for it so fiercely.
If you were not meant for more, that ember of hope inside you would have gone silent by now.
But it has not.
Not even after everything.
Not even when you wished it would.
Not even when you begged it to.
That stubborn, flickering hope that refuses to die inside you is sacred evidence that you are still meant for more than this moment.
That you are still becoming.
That you are still carrying a future inside you that your mind cannot yet imagine.
The future inside you is still unfolding.
The path you cannot see is still being made by the steps you are brave enough to take, even when you feel like collapsing.
And every time you choose to breathe again, to rise again, to carry that tiny ember of hope forward again, you are proving the darkness wrong.
You are not done.
This is not the end.
It is a hard place, but it is not your final place.
Hold on.
Even if all you are holding is a whisper.
Even if all you are holding is a breath.
The life that is meant for you is still reaching for you, even here.
And you, even tired, even doubting, even breaking, are still meant for more.
You are not meant to give up here
You are made of the very fire that knows how to rise.
Your brave heart remembers the way through.
One breath.
One step.
One ember at a time.
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Ramona Robinson, Hypnotherapist & Mindset Coach
Ramona Robinson, founder of RoRa Hypnosis, is a seasoned hypnotist and mindset coach dedicated to guiding individuals on transformative journeys. With a compassionate approach and a wealth of personal and professional experience, she empowers clients to overcome challenges, reclaim their strength, and embrace life with renewed resilience and hope. Through her work, Ramona aims to inspire others to discover their inner power and live authentically.
