Tara Varagani's Key Ideas from What Happened to You?
by Oprah Winfrey

How much do you think about your heart?

since before you were born, that miraculous machine has been steadily pumping energy of life throughout your body. Day in, day out at least 115,000 beats each day, with sole purpose of keeping you alive.

Given love, the unloved can become loving .

if you are loved , you learn to love

The capacity to love is the core of the success of human kind, the reason we have survived on this planet is that we have been able to form and maintain effective groups. Isolated and disconnected, we are vulnerable.

Relational glue keeps our species alive, and love is relational super glue.

As you revisit your past, know that no matter what happened simply being here, alive makes you worthy. And know that there is hope.

wellness is possible.

It happens one moment, one step at a time.

making the connection, finally understanding both cause and effect of myself is a game changer for me.

As you consider your individual response patterns, know that by putting a small moment of space between the immediate feeling and your instinctive reaction, you are allowing yourself to stay in present and ultimately regain control.

What ever your past experience created in your brain, you can’t just delete them. You can’t get rid of the past.

Therapy is more about new associations.

This is why understanding how resume impacts your health for everyone.

We take our focus off the tragedy, move on with our lives, telling ourselves that “they” will be okay.

The impact of trauma doesn’t simply fade away.

We can help each other heal, but often assumptions about resilience and girt blind us to the healing that leads us down the painful path to wisdom.

Very often, “what happened” takes years to reveal itself. It takes courage to comfort our actions, peel back the layers of trauma in our lives and expose the raw truth of our past. But this is where healing begins

It is easy to be discouraged and overwhelmed by many problems in the society, to be demoralized by the many problems in our society and trauma that are all too pervasive in our world.

our world is filled with so many kind, capable and creative people.

We will continue to discover, invent and learn.

We can make our world a safer , more just, and humane place for all.