Many are saying these are the worst times. They, the economy, normal life will never recover. Look at these pictures of lava flows. Plants have begun to spring up new life after a 2000 degree Farenheit burning! A depressed and suicidal lady in Puerto Rico said she had given up after the hurricane and the devastating effect of looking at completely denuded trees. The island was ugly now, like her life. However, in a couple of weeks, see saw a sprig of green, then more. She decided if nature can make a comeback so can she, a wonderful insight and now a survivor. The second picture looks like a sad face. It was created by lava wrapping around a tree trunk. Maybe it immortalized a tree's sadness, yet created a haunting beauty. Expand your mind, eyes, perceptions to create new realities, new possibilities for a healthier life. You can choose to leave a legacy of positive or negative; it is your choice. The third photo is from a lava tunnel. Molten rock can create charred, rough surfaces or as seen in this photo, a beautiful shiny silver rock face. With trauma there is a time to grieve what that experience has taken from you in your youth, leaving behind the sharp, rough rock(anger, shame, untrusting, bitterness). Working to completion in Trauma therapy is getting to where you see the silver coating at the end of the dark tunnel. Moving from the shame and victim perception to one of survivor and putting the shame and blame on the perpetrator.