I am overcoming all obstacles.

Climbers don't defeat rock. They read it, find the four places a hand can go, and use the wall's own shape to get up it.

Overcoming almost never means removing. The mortgage stays. The diagnosis stays. The difficult relative is still coming at Christmas. What changes is that you stop trying to punch through and start looking for holds.

*Overcoming* is present tense, and it should be. Not a finished thing — a thing in progress, this week, unglamorously. You've already got past several obstacles you were certain would end you. They didn't move. You found a route.