Resolve to Rise

  As we walk through the darkness and deal with the experiences that have held us hostage, a new thing is revealed; a new way of responding, and living, and loving.  When you are dealing with the impacts of trauma, it is easy to get swept away with the belief it will never get better. I know that all to well. In my bestselling book, " Resolve to Rise: Become Greater than Your Circumstances ," I talk about the importance of going through the pain to come out on the other side, because you cannot go around it.  After years of my own counseling, I still found that certain situations and content were triggering for me. Increasingly counseling sessions were helping me understand how my response showed up in my body; often in a sense of pulling back away and tensing up in a posture of self-defense. It often left me feeling like I was never going to know healing and always be vulnerable to intense emotional reactions to seemingly small circumstances. In the past few years, I dou...