Schawn Austin | Healing History Counseling

You can never be who you might have been if it had never happened. But the fact that it happened doesn’t have to determine who you become.

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It can be really annoying to have people say that a person who has survived childhood trauma is stronger or better because of it. At times it can be tempting, while struggling in the mud of dealing with childhood trauma, to just slap those people (I'm not advocating that you do). But at the same time it will never not be there. The pain, the destruction, the drama that you are experiencing right now because of it can go away but the fact that you endured it then will never go away. You can heal your past. What happened to you does not have to be the architect of your future.