If you are not familiar with Katherine Wolf, she is @hopeheals on Instagram. Get ready for your heart and soul to breath a big sigh of relief as you go on the rabbit trail of encouragement on her feed. God has really ministered to me through her sharing her story. I’m so grateful for her faithfulness to let God use her to do His work. I got to meet her yesterday, and all I wanted to do was give her a hug. Maybe that was a weird reaction, but I just felt so grateful to her. What I've learned from Katherine: 1. God can use my trauma. He can write a beautiful story in my life, not in spite of my trauma, but because of it. 2. Life is good and hard. I thought life was either hard in the moment or good in the moment. I didn't realize that during a hard time, life could still be good. 3. That pain and suffering IS part of life. God did not abandon me. 4. I can feel sad. It's not bad to have a low line of sadness. I don't have to be ashamed of this or think I should be stronger/happier. 5. I can and should share these true feelings because that's real life (I learned this one yesterday. Y’all get ready! Hahaha). 6. BUT, I don't have to let these feelings overtake or rule me. Sometimes I need to "boss my feelings around." 7. Instead of turning myself off in the hard times (or find some way to numb or blip out), lean in and get curious to what God is trying to teach or show me. (I learned this concept yesterday, and oh my goodness- this is going to be a hard one.) #LTKunder100