Empower your life

The Transformative Power of Trauma
From Damaged Goods to an Empowered Life
Originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, April/May 2001. Copyright since 2001. Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. All rights reserved.

By Sonia Osorio

. . . "All I could think of was death," she recalls. "I felt myself becoming weaker and giving in to the illness, so I forced myself to return to work. There I asked a co-worker, whom I knew had had cancer: 'What do you do when every day that you wake up, you think that you're going to die?' And he said: 'You're going to die anyway.' And, it struck me: That's so true. It's not important when you die, but rather how you live. It's like breathing, it's all part of something very natural, so just live your life how you want to be living it right now." . . .

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