Hope, Recovery, and Wellness Together

For years, Paula moved through loss by burying the pain and pressing forward. When COVID arrived, everything she’d been carrying surfaced at once, and she disappeared into a fog. Through therapy at St. Luke’s Penn Foundation, she learned to recognize the negative thought patterns keeping her stuck and built a toolbox she now reaches for without thinking. When fresh losses came, she was ready. “There’s a huge difference between surviving and thriving,” she says. “And I’m thriving.”