Everything Happens For A Reason: Based On True, Inspirational Stories

Deborah Day Poor’s new book, EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON, is clearly a book about overcoming – and it is impressive in its presentation by what it isn’t. It isn’t a series of lectures about how to change your life. It is instead a selection of successful examples, allowing the stories about the inspiring experiences of real people and how they overcame their painful pasts to do the teaching.

A common reality inherent in each story is the realization that painful memories simply cannot be erased but they can be replaced.. Follow the young soldier suffering from severe PTSD, who found the ability to care for himself by learning to care for a horse first, and then for his own family. Be inspired by the story of Viktor Frankl, a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, who overcame the torture of forced confinement by learning to reframe his restrictions and change his perspective. And then there is the story of a determined women’s rights activist named Clara Barton, who changed the way wounded soldiers were cared for by treating all soldiers alike on the battlefield, regardless of the color of their uniforms.

You will love this book and the people whose skills at overcoming their own adversities significantly changed not only their lives but the lives of thousands of others. And they are still changing lives as their individual experiences are shared with Deborah’s readers.

- Lauren McLaughlin