A Drop of Rain

On a rainy April evening in 1993 a serial killer responding to a Craigslist ad for Heather Callahans used car attacked her on the street in front of her Denver home and left her for dead. Heather didnt die. She refused to thinking as her blood pooled in the rain-soaked street: This is wrong. I am not going to die not now not this way.Heather not only survived in the aftermath of this terrible attack she thrived her indomitable spirit a testament to her physical emotional and psychological recovery. She came to understand this unexpected and powerful blossoming as Post Traumatic Growth.A Drop of Rain her extraordinaire memoir demonstrates in no uncertain terms that life doesnt stop when you become a victim. Indeed she is living proof that the most horrific traumas we face may also in the long run be the most significant turning points in our lives.