Personal Narrative: How Erickson Changed My Life

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wonderful results had also came out of it. She had come to view her life diversity as a learning lesson God had intended for her. The two major test in her life involve the early death of her parents and the divorce that happened in her later life. The early death of her parents had allowed a close bonding affect to her siblings and later with her children. Though the divorce from her husband had not fully healed, it cannot overshadow the joy she has in the family that is gotten from the marriage. Life’s tests do not cease with time and life’s events will challenge the health of every person and through learned that we evolve (Bronsky, 2012). Through the success of these challenges that I fell that M has reach reached the height of Erickson’s

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