It Happened to You, It's Not Who You Are

Internalizing external events: What not to do.

Something bad happened to you… fired, divorced, cancer, abuse, robbed, bankrupt. These are all terrible things, there is no doubt. We can even use our “survival” of these events to help others and promote awareness. These are some of the positive outcomes of negative events.

When something devastating happens to us, it affects us: physically, emotiona…