What if you could take your challenges and traumas and turn them into a positive life force that propels you forward rather than holding you back?In Small Steps, Big Wins: Use Your Challenges and Traumas to Transform Your Life, Susan Saller invites you to take a journey with her-a journey from a life of control, complacency, and unhealed wounds to one of self-love, personal freedom, and deep inner peace. Before a series of posttraumatic growth experiences, Susan lived in a world dominated by control-trying to create a life that was predictable, safe, and secure. Like so many of us, she was trying to control her circumstances, believing that by doing so, she could avoid pain, heartache, and disappointment. But underneath that need for control was something deeper-unresolved trauma, fear, and a belief that she wasn't enough.In this book, you'll learn that transformation isn't about grand gestures or sudden breakthroughs. Instead, it's about taking consistent, small steps toward growth and authentic vulnerability. Each chapter offers actionable advice, emotional insight, and real-world examples to guide you on your own journey of healing.Through practical tools, including story work, self-awareness practices, and life coaching strategies, Susan helps you: Shift Your Mindset: Learn how to change your perspective on past trauma, reframing it from a source of pain to a catalyst for growth.Heal from the Inside Out: Discover how to heal from past wounds by engaging with your story, giving yourself grace, and learning from the past without being shackled to it.Let Go of Control: Understand the importance of surrendering control over things you cannot change while embracing the small areas of life where you do have influence.Create Lasting Change: Establish new habits, mindsets, and patterns of behavior that help you live more authentically and with greater inner peace.Your Journey Starts Now!Small Steps, Big Wins isn't just a book-it's an invitation to begin your own transformation. Whether you're navigating the aftermath of trauma, grappling with feelings of regret, or simply longing to live a more authentic life, this book will guide you through the process of healing, growth, and self-discovery.