In the Lord of the Rings films, the lady Arwen gives a jewel called the Evenstar to Strider, Aragorn, as a token ... but it turns out that J. R. R. Tolkien's original Arwen Undomiel (the Quenya surname means "Evenstar") gives an unnamed jewel to Frodo, with these words:

"If your hurts grieve you still and the memory of your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed. But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!' ... And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain about Frodo's neck. 'When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,' she said, 'this will bring you aid.' (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter VI, "Many Partings")

I have had the joy of volunteering with an organization called Take This, which seeks to offer support and destigmatize mental health within the gamer community. You may have seen this group at PAXWest or other cons. They have a sort of motto - "It's not safe to go alone. Here, take this." I think of the "this" as something very like that Evenstar jewel, a talisman so that we remember even in the darkest moments that hope is not lost and the path to safety, the next companion, success, are there to be found so long as we keep walking.

My hope, the goal of my practice, is to offer aid and healing, and to help you find these within yourself, so that the hurts, the memory of the burdens you have carried, the wounds and weariness, the fear and the darkness, will not have the last word.