Thankful for Trauma: When Pain Becomes Purpose

Published on December 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM

December 29, 2025

What? Thankful for Trauma, I do not think so. You are out of your mind.  You are nuts! That is not normal!  Oh, you just wait and see, someday you will be thankful.  Guess what! They were right! A few months ago, a very exciting opportunity revealed itself to me.  I said yes to Write to Rise, a partnership with Karen Robinson where club members will write their little hearts out.  They will be seen and heard and loved, something that this trauma overcomer always yearned for since being born. 

 

Write To Rise you are my heart and soul.  You are a warm blanket, a cup of hot chocolate and a BIG HUG!  You are my pain into purpose.  You are my rising. You are my soft landing. You are the connection we all crave. You are a newborn baby being warmly kissed by the mother who unconditionally says I love you to the child.  Are you longing to be loved and turn your pain into purpose?  We all are actually!  We all want love and connection. 

 

Trauma I can’t say I love you.  I can say I love all that you have given me.  You have given me post-traumatic growth, a phenomenon where survivors develop deeper resilience and a restructured sense of purpose.  You have given me radical empathy for others, strengthened my personal relationships, and provided a clearer perspective on what clearly matters in life. 

 

Discovering new possibilities as fresh paths and goals open up that were previously unimagined or ignored.  In walks Write To Rise with journaling goals that open up fresh paths to freedom.  Along this path curiousity has allowed discoveries. 

 

I am not bad.  I am valuable.  I am important.  I matter to other people.  I have what it takes to get better.  I am healthy.  I am funny.  These are some of my discoveries.  I have learned many other things along the way as well.

 

Other people have trauma too and together our trauma is painful.  Alone it is even more painful.  It is trauma that brings people together.  Allowing space for all to be seen and heard is the journaling club way.  Any place that people come together for enrichment soothes their soul and guides them to a wiser way to live, causing them to rise out of the ashes is extremely valuable.  All because of trauma. 

 

Trauma, I treasure you.  I surrender to you as you have brought me unmentionable and unfathomable pain.  Trauma, I respect and honor you.  Thank you trauma, thank you for the lessons and the love and the purpose.

 

Yes, trauma has given me purpose.  A purpose that allows me to be a Certified Journaling Club Coach.

Yay!  Without you trauma, this would have never been a thing.  Speaking from my heart as I give feedback to other human souls that crave love, attention and healing.  Trauma can be healed.  It can be mastered, learned from and triumphed over. 

 

There is purpose in the pain. It is not all about the pain.  It definitely seems like it for a while, for a long while.  Hang in there and you too will someday say, “THANK YOU TO YOUR TRAUMA”!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Trauma by Tamara – https://www.writetorise.net


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