I'm going back to school next month, after 20 years. I don't know exactly what it is that made me decide now is the time, but I do know that having that sort of plan for the future is new for me and is helping me as I go through some really difficult trauma processing in therapy. At times when I feel overwhelmed by the work I am doing and the things from the past that are being dredged up, I can spend even just a moment thinking about my new future, and know this life I'm living right now isn't all there is for me, and it gives me hope.