How to Overcome Your Trauma to Achieve Greatness
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Your adversity is not something to be feared or avoided — but embraced and transformed.
It’s in the darkest of times, when you’re faced with your greatest challenges, that you have the opportunity to discover your true strength, rack up some significant “wins” and emerge victorious.
When the chips are down — don’t crumble — fry them up and serve them as nachos 😎
The question is not whether or not you’ll eventually face adversity — but how you choose to respond to it.
Will you let it break you or will you turn it into something that helps your growth and success?
Trauma can be a significant obstacle to achieving greatness, but it is not an insurmountable one. By understanding and working through your trauma, you can develop resilience and even emerge stronger.
Yes, post-traumatic growth is a thing!
You can experience positive changes in your life as a result of coping with adversity — such as greater appreciation for life, stronger relationships, and a sense of personal strength.
One key to overcoming the affects of your trauma is to first understand that it’s a normal response to abnormal events. Your trauma is not a sign of weakness or a character flaw; it’s a natural response to overwhelming stress.
You can work on cleaning out any brain junk that’s built up from your trauma and then move onto healing..
Your trauma can make you stronger — and you can maximize the power of your resilience.
To 10X your resilience, it’s important to take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and mentally. This includes getting enough sleep, eating well, exercising regularly, and practicing self-care. It also means learning to manage stress through techniques such as meditation, yoga, or journaling.
Another important aspect of building resilience is developing a support system of people you can trust and rely on. This can include your friends, family, therapy, or support groups.
It is also important to tell your stories of adversity and talk about what’s happened to you — and that may not be easy.
You need to process and make sense of your experiences, and empower yourself with tools to cope with the affects of your trauma.
Some great leaders turned adversity into a strength
Let’s start with Nelson Mandela — who spent 27 years in prison for his activism against apartheid in South Africa.
Despite the trauma of his imprisonment, he was able to come out with a newfound sense of purpose and lead his country towards reconciliation and democracy.
Mandela’s early life was also traumatic — marked by poverty and discrimination. Despite this, he was able to receive a good education and went on to study law. After completing his studies, he began practicing law and became involved in the anti-apartheid movement.
In the early 1960s, Mandela was arrested and charged with sabotage for fighting against the apartheid government. He was convicted and spent the next 27 years in prison.
In 1990, after pressure from the international community and domestic protests, the South African government finally released Mandela.
After his release, Mandela helped negotiate an end to apartheid. In 1994, he was elected as the first black President of South Africa in the country’s first democratic elections, and served until 1999.
Other leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, Howard Schultz, Oprah, JK Rollings, Gavin DeBecker and many more have been able to turn their adversity into a strength.
Healing Your Trauma
Overcoming your trauma is a process that takes time and effort, but it’s possible.
By building resilience, seeking support, and working through your trauma in healthy ways, you can not only survive — but thrive and achieve greatness.
Your journey of healing and strength-building starts with self awareness and understanding.
It’s brave and courageous — and will probably be somewhat emotional — to look back on your past to understand how what’s previously happened to you affects who you are now.
Your past affects how you currently connect with others around you and how authentic and productive you can be.
And while you’re build your strength, you’ll need some solid healthy coping strategies.
Your journey of healing and turning your adversity into a strength is an emotional ride.
You’ll have productive days and maybe some days that you aren’t as focused and it becomes challenging and frustrating.
Developing and integrating healthy coping strategies — like exercise, yoga, music, nature walks, mindfulness, meditation, creative expression and so many more — is essential to boosting your resilience.
Healthy Relationships are Healing
Healthy relationships are healing and empowering — relationships that accept who you are and lift you up when you’re feeling down.
You can avoid the toxicity of relationships with people that are intolerant or constantly judge you.
Acceptance is the relationship elixir that will help you build your resilience. You can surround yourself with people — even if it’s just one or two — that accept who you are, allow you to be your authentic self, and will offer you more tolerance and compassion even when you may be having a challenging day.
Although you may have had some difficult times — they can be a valuable opportunity to grow and develop strength as a leader.
You can take control of your own life, and use your experiences — both good and bad — to become stronger, more self-aware and a kick-ass leader.
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