What Strength Do You See In Yourself That Helped You Deal With Transition

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a. Explain how you dealt with the event and transition. What strengths do you see in yourself that helped you deal with that event? This is a difficult question because within my lifetime I have suffered quite a few major events. This one event I will discuss because it haunts me to this very day. It was the sudden loss of my brother at the age of 25 my brother was murdered on Mother’s Day May 9th 2005. The strength of my family and the love of God is what enabled me through my transition. The pain I felt was something indescribable. Raised in a tight knit family growing up as a child my mother would always say to me how strong minded I was mentally and emotionally. Well being told that all my life kicked in at the worse time during my life.

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