When will it end?
Apr 22, 2026
When the struggles hit, feel constant, when it's so painful .. when will it end?
Of course, you want it to end and depending on circumstances, it's very normal and common to think it will never end. I've thought that hundreds of times when I'm stressed out. I offer you a few concepts that can really help you consider how it ends, and that a new beginning is closer than you might imagine. And let's acknowledge that sometimes it's just very hard to feel relief during constant crises and the complications of them, so please welcome lots of compassion and grace.
For now ... I invite you to just sit and get still, allow your heart to guide your mind. Breathe and let the words move through you. Yes, really please do this, you're worth it, ending the intensity and frequency of suffering is worth it.
This is where it ends.
1. Every moment ends, and a new one begins. Every hour, every day ... an ending into a new beginning. We just have a hard time noticing and joining this truth. We are hell bent on owning the very cycle of earth's evolution to feel the illusion of control thinking that's where we get our power. What a cosmic joke but it doesn't feel funny at all. Because it's not. OK, it's human, but this is what's really going on, and really contributing to some stress. Good to just notice, and remind yourself "oh yeah, caught in that loop again. Let's begin again", because poof you're in another moment already.
2. As these endings and beginnings are happening that means that it, we, our loved ones, life itself is always in continuation. No beginning, no end. We will be moved with our awareness of it or be moved in the stress of trying to control and know the future. It is in continuation, and you can not know. Notice how many times you haven't known and life still went on, you learned, you made different choices, and then didn't know something else. You're a master at it already! Might there be some relief in this truth? Your loved one is in continuation, you are in continuation, no one but God knows where it all goes, how, and when. Continue to love and drop the assumptions, expectations, and thinking you know. It's your best and most empowered response. What a fantastic thing to continue!
3. Perhaps the question is not "when will it end" but "when will it start?" Start what, what is stirring in you that you'd like to start? What role do you want to play in new beginnings? How do you want to show up for these inevitable new beginnings? What supports might you need to be in continuation? These are not just thought provoking or challenging questions. These are life giving, life sustaining, empowering questions to bring you more of life and love so that you can share it with your loved one, who may not be capable of getting here, or feeling it. You can! What a divine new beginning and continuation to be in such great purpose!
We ... You can interrupt the great human capacity to get stuck waiting and wondering for the end of struggles. The struggle is part of the natural continuation of the way things are, whether you like it or not. Life comes with them, it's part of how we learn and grow. Congrats, you've grown and are growing a lot! Easy? No. Please give yourself some praise for it though! You are not just surviving it all, you've been creating and re-creating through it all. You're pretty amazing!
If and when you re-consider endings and beginnings, especially during the struggles, it may bring some ease to them. It may enable you to bring more peace to yourself and your loved one. Truth does that. Love does that.
Peace to you and your family,
Joanne
PS: You know what I love about the photo below? Beyond the "end" sign is a whole world of endless possibilities, and it's beautiful, it's a huge continuation of beauty offering itself to be fully experienced, it's so much bigger than anything I might be thinking ... and it's inviting me to join it. There is no end to it, it's always beginning ... always in continuation. So much gratitude!
What do you see?
