Becoming Myself: Making Peace with a Traumatic Childhood

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Having suffered a series of traumatizing childhood events, the author strives to reframe her life by looking back

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We cannot control all that happens to us, but we can choose how we react to those struggles. I’m inspired to share with others how we can look at life, the glass half-empty or half-full, and find peace in the efforts to become ourselves. I didn’t understand this when I was a young girl living in an orphanage, but there was something in me that pushed me to survive by believing in the positive, riding into the sunrise, not the sunset. That is my story.

[Below is an excerpt from Roberta’s memoir, , about the construction and union of both an inner and outer life. Reproduced with permission