When do you know when it is time to step away and just throw up your hands up and just walk away? When is it time to leave an abusive relationship, or time to leave a toxic friend, time to leave an old job to pursue a career? It can be hard to leave something that is so familiar and something that almost feels like home to us... Leaving the security of something that we have been so used to for so long.

We can get to a point where the stress of something can become so much that it consumes your every thought. You start to lose a sense of who you are, you sink into your “shell” if you will. You get to the point where all you can do is cry. There aren't words because they can't come out. Not only can they not come out, but you can't mentally form them to get the words out and all you can do is cry; that's all you're physically and mentally able to do. You become so overwhelmed with this stress that your head is in a fog with no idea what to do…

This. This is when you know it is time to leave. Time to let go of the past, it can be hard and it can be scary but sometimes it is the only option to help keep your sanity and help protect your mental stability. One thing I can promise you is that when you leave all of your problems and all of the demons in the past and you finally make the decision to let go, you will not believe the difference it will make - suddenly it will make sense. It will click and you will notice a huge difference. You'll be able to think clearly again and you'll finally become yourself again if you lost a bit of that because of all the stress you have endured.