Dealing with trauma

I finished "The tenth circle" by Jodi Picoult this week. It was about a girl who accuses a boy of rape and then has to deal with the fallout of that accusation. I enjoyed the book.

There was one line that stood out in the book. "It was a catch-22. If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on with your life. If you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up the person you once were."

I have maintained that the only true control I have in my life is how I respond to what life has thrown my way

One of the struggles of life for me is that life is unpredictable and sometimes injurious. When those times come I have learned that I need to deal with the experience and willingly allow change to enter my life. What I have found in the process is that change isn't bad. In fact I realize that I'm grateful for what the experience has changed me into.