Coping is not always healthy, responsible, or pretty.

Sometimes it is drinking so you don’t have to think. Sometimes it is staying busy so you don’t fall apart. Sometimes it is doing whatever you know how to do just to make it through another day.

Coping After Trauma is an honest reflection on the choices one survivor made before she had safer options, and the difference between understanding those choices and excusing them.

What you did may not have been healthy or right. But the part of you trying to survive was not wrong. And ultimately, asking for help does not mean you failed. It means you know you should not have to do everything alone.