Hope
Cara Brookins also wanted to send a message to other women who feel powerless by domestic violence. “Forget everything you’ve been told about taking baby steps. Everybody says, ‘If you just take a small step every day, it will get better.’ In my experience, though, it doesn’t. You have to make a big leap. It has to be this huge, enormous act. For us, it was building a house. For somebody else, it could be something totally different. But you need to do something big that changes your perception of yourself.”
Hope
Worth It
Despite how hard it was, Cara Brookins said the whole experience was worth it. “I kept hearing advice, like ‘just get out of bed, just make pot of coffee.’ If my goal is only to get out of bed, I’d never accomplish anything,” she said. “Set goals impossibly big — look at the big picture.”
Worth It
