Pain is everywhere. If you’re not feeling any today, watch the news. It’s out there. Nobody is immune to pain. But we all deal with pain differently. Some people stuff it. Some take it out on others. Some take it out on themselves.

One of the secrets that was written on a card during our Secret Survivors seminar a couple weeks ago said, “I was a heroin and crack addict for two years. I used drugs to numb the pain of having an absent father.”

How do you numb the pain? I found that for all the things I tried to numb my pain, they were only temporary (and not even that effective!). I’m not sure there is a real solution for getting rid of the pain; it’s more about learning how to deal with it. My pain led me to write this book… Where can your pain take you?

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