Be thankful that…

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Be thankful that:

•We are not them.

•We are still alive after all we’ve been through.

•We decided to be more caring than selfish.

•We don’t carry hate. That’s too heavy a burden and we just don’t have that kind of time, energy, or heart. — We have things to accomplish in our lives.

•We turned our trauma into good and our dark into light.

•We learned that boundaries are good self-care.

•We don’t blame others for how our lives turned out.

•We have the ability for self- reflection and self-improvement.

•We can apologize, change, learn and grow.

•We don’t wallow in our pain.

•We don’t need their validation to feel whole.

•We have the guts to face our pain and our responsibilities.

•We don’t have to live like that anymore.

•We don’t live in labels.

•We don’t let diagnoses drive.

•We learned to look at fear and anxiety right square in the face and keep going anyway. (Maybe fear and anxiety are afraid of us? Ever think of that?)