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White Lady Hard Things
Growing through adversity is an opportunity to check your privilege.
When you go through a trauma (friends, here’s a reminder of what the definition of trauma is: anything that happens too fast, that is too much and too soon), there’s a really natural thing that happens in which you become the center of your own universe.
Move over sun, it’s time for everything to revolve around YOU.
We need to hydrate, rest, and meditate/write/reflect when healing from a hard thing. What seems traumatic to you, may not be traumatic to someone else.
You know healing is happening when you can begin to look around you, and realize the sun is in fact the center of our solar system and there are other needs more pressing than your own.
There’s no going back to who I was before my trauma, but there are certainly parts of me I miss and can integrate into this new life experience. I used to be really engaged in the fight for racial justice in America. I gave financially to grassroots organizations, read, lead book club for…
