Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Grateful for the trauma 🖤

20 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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A reflection on finding gratitude in past trauma and hardship. The speaker argues that setbacks like job rejections actually protect you from worse situations, using a cottage metaphor to show how the universe guides you toward a better path. Trusting that guidance, even when it feels like a cliché, is what transforms adversity into growth.

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So I appreciate the trauma because I would never have found this if I hadn't had it. And so I appreciate all of the hard times in my life so that I can fully love the, the high times, like, and the joyous times, and feel the appreciation and the gratitude for finding our cottage. Or like, I'm using my cottage as like a metaphor, you know what, you know what I mean? Like not getting a job that you really thought you wanted and being feeling really disappointed about it. And maybe you went through 5 interviews and you thought you had it in the bag, but you don't know that that's not because it was the wrong thing for you. There could have been a horrible, like, boss above the boss that you interviewed with that was going to make your life hell. You don't know, but the universe knows. And we just have to trust that everything that happens in our life is happening for us. And I know, another cliché, but it's so true.