This article will help you to make sense of those difficult moments in your life when adversity gets the better of you. Life presents us with many challenges in the form of setbacks, divorce, illness, poverty, loss of a loved one, debt, injury, accidents, crime, destruction and suffering. No matter which of these events comes across your path, life is never easy. In fact, it can be incredibly difficult to move on when tragedy strikes. However, tragedy is what you make it out to be. You can either allow it to get the better of you or you can make the most of it. This article explores how you are not alone in your pain. Many people are struggling just like you. In fact, many people before you have experienced similar or worse problems. Use that understanding to make sense of your suffering. The article also breaks down several assumptions you will need to make to work through tragedy in optimal ways. It follows that up by walking you through a five-step process you can use when tragedy strikes. The article then concludes by presenting you with further guidelines and suggestions for working through periods of tragedy in optimal ways. Working through this article will help shift how you think about your misfortunes.