Many times throughout life we get caught up in the daily grind and forget just how much stuff one has overcome throughout your lifetime. Whether it’s getting over a illness, dealing with a terminal illness, recovering from a messy breakup, overcoming poverty, surviving a violent relationship, or just making it through the rough patches in life. Sometimes you have to stop and realize that no matter what you’re a conqueror.

If you’ve ever survived a violent relationship and you’re living to tell the story they you truly are a conqueror. There are so many people, both men and women, who have lost their lives due to the senseless and inhumane, extreme violence inside their relationship. Can you imagine if you’ve had to hide scars and bruises. Handle the mental anguish of lying to those you love in order to protect your privacy. Doesn’t matter if you’re the strongest or weakest individual; it takes great strength and will to recover from something that traumatic. So if you’re still able to give ya testimony about what you went through, you’re definitely a conqueror.

For anyone whose dealt with any type of severe illness. Whether it’s one that’s curable or one that’s terminal. Do you remember how you felt when you first got that diagnosis. What was your immediate reaction? The doubts and insecurities started to creep into your mind. Your mortality began to flash before your eyes. Mostly because you know someone or multiple people who have dealt with the same illness you have and haven’t been as fortunate. But, just think about it for a minute. If you’re still here to tell your story and help someone else to cope with their illness or raise money to find the cure, you’re a conqueror.

We’ve all been through an emotional, messy, difficult breakup in our lives. Whether it be a marriage, long term relationship, engagement or whatever the case may be, we all know what it feels like to have had a heartbreak. The toll it takes on your body and on your emotions. The disappointment and the energy it takes to start over from the beginning again. To detach from someone you loved and to see yourself beginning your relationship journey all over again. While in the beginning it seems so imposing and difficult, you let some time pass by and then you realize how much you made it thru.. say it wit me.. you’re a conqueror.

No matter the situation. Abandoned by your mother or father, being betrayed by your best friend, overcoming a challenging work environment, financial troubles, whatever the circumstance. If you’ve made on the other side of thru and even if you’re still in the middle of the storm, as long as you haven’t given up then you still are a conqueror. Never let the storm take you under. Always remember that you will be able to overcome any situation. You are a conqueror.

I could go on forever with situations and challenges that we’ve all overcome but it would only go to reinforce the point that’s been made. No matter what it is, if you’ve managed to get through, you’re a conqueror. Now reflect, breathe a little and tell yourself that you can do it.