Posts in Trauma
Why "Everything Happens for a Reason" is Bullsh*t

This title – I know – perhaps not for the faint of heart, but hear me out. Someone I know recently received a cancer diagnosis. This comes shy of one month after she lost her mother to cancer as well. She lost her mom over the holidays after several preceding months that included watching her mother die, as her two young kiddos accompanied her many times over to visit their ill grandmother.

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Answers Within

Social Media. NPR. CNN. FOX News. Fake news. We’ve got it all. We have it all, and we have it all. of. the. time. It’s precarious moments right now in our world as we watch and wait for the “experts” to tell us all the things: how we feel, how we should feel, what’s happening, what’s great about what’s happening, what’s terrible about what’s happening, what’s right for us, what’s wrong for us – not to mention that it remains unclear who is behind declaring such very good-no-good-terrible-good-and-bad things.

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