People often talk about taking “baby steps” to achieve big changes, but how often do we think about what baby steps really look like? There’s a lot of wobbling, falling, false starts, and hesitation before that first step is actually taken. But each of those things helps to prepare the child for growth.

As survivors, let’s learn to celebrate not only the baby steps but also every single thing that leads up to them. We have borne the burden of trauma for many years and we are not going to recover completely overnight, no matter how hard we try. Also there were other factors in our lives, in addition to the abuse, that complicated our growth.

So let’s keep working, and growing, and patting ourselves on the back for every tiny bit of progress—because it required hard work, and because God is rejoicing at our effort. We can rejoice too.

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