“What more could I do to help [name withheld] as she is ready to kill herself soon. Would she in fact be better off doing so given how bleak her life is and the slow pace of the healing work I’ve been doing with her for over a year now?”

Your response to her was first rate and we applaud you for spending time and thinking through carefully and not giving in to her negativity, because there is a path as you rightly told her. This is not as huge a problem as it seems to her. She is viewing this from the wrong end of the telescope because her life has only led her on a downward spiral and now she is seeing things are worsening dramatically when she has no reserves of energy or hope to draw on. Your work has been helpful and she is much, much, closer to breaking free than she knows herself or that you can see from the surface of things. That will come to naught if she takes this drastic step, and it would be a shame because she has come far enough that it is clear to us this can work. We predicted this at the outset. It was the basis of our encouragement of your doing the work for her as not being folly, but being a potential win. That has not changed despite the seeming setback. This is something that has been there all along but outside her awareness. Now that this has sprung out into the open and looms as a serious problem, you can see yourself it is a problem with finite limits. There are worse things than living with having to economize strictly, to scrape by. Many people do this even for many years as long as there is a future possibility of betterment. It will be by far the better course to stick with things and do the healing and keep going. There is a path to her meeting someone special, just as you have seen. This was an intuitive assessment you are being shown. She is a catch in her own way, and will make someone deliriously happy. She cannot imagine such a thing, but it can happen. But preparing her is critical to this taking place. If she does not do something here to keep going and do more healing, the opportunity cannot come her way. It will only come her way when she is ready. This is part of how healing changes the life. It is not that you need to bide your time until the magic rescue, it is that you need to reshape your life so that it converges on the rescuer’s path and then the two come together, and then the magic happens. All you are doing with her counts and works towards that day. So we see the value of your holding strong here in doing your utmost to support her, leaning on you if she has to, but it will pay off for her if she can keep going under these difficult circumstances. The reward will be well worth it and will be a feather in your cap as well. We understand you are doing this for her and not for you, and that is true in the near-term sense that you will not get a reward in this life, other than perhaps seeing things improve for her and feeling satisfaction you were a part of making that happen. We see greater rewards in the hereafter and beyond because you are doing these kinds of things for people that you cannot measure as yet, but we are saying is very real. So we know you do not need a pep talk, but we are helping do everything we can here and that includes giving you encouragement when we have the opportunity to do so. We are doing much behind the scenes for this young woman, as she is deserving and this situation need not determine her fate. It is still within her control, with you helping, that is what will make it possible. If you keep going we will keep going, and then she will keep going.