In the flip book below you find two quotes that are from Victor Frankl.  These speak to ways that we can participate in our own rescue.  

It isn’t helpful in the early hours or days of trauma to speak of choice but I find that much later, after many of the facets of trauma have been faced, there is great benefit to re-claiming choice.

The last three pages of the flip book give important ideas from research about resilience.  Studies continue to support the concept of “tend and befriend.”  During trauma we are so unsettled we can’t rest or digest our food.  With help from our closest allies we can move through the shocking phases of naming what happened.  Toward the end of working through trauma the idea of our freedom to choose our new path takes top priority.

        Building rich relationships and turning to others is the remedy that allows our nervous systems to grow more familiar with regulation than dysregulation.