Finding words for a friend going through divorce is harder than it sounds, because divorce isn’t one thing. It moves through phases that feel nothing like each other, and the words that help in the first shocked days are not the ones that help when the legal process drags on for months, and neither of … Read more
When someone you care about is going through something hard, the message that helps most is rarely the one that tries to fix it. It’s the one that says, plainly, that the situation is hard and that you’re not going anywhere. Below are 80 words of encouragement for hard times, organized by what they actually … Read more
There’s no single right way to write encouragement messages, because there’s no single kind of hard. Someone who just lost a job needs something different from someone who’s been quietly anxious for weeks, and a friend going through a divorce needs something different again from someone caring for a parent who’s getting sicker. What follows … Read more
Not everyone feels the same way about change, and the message that lifts one person can land completely wrong on another. These 60 inspiring messages about change are organized by something most other lists miss: the person’s actual relationship with change, whether they are running toward it, being dragged through it, or somewhere in the … Read more