Recovering: What Makes Their Recovery Easier

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Even though the families face several factors in their micro, mezzo, and macro systems that leave them unable to easily recover from their loss, several factors still help the families focus easier on moving forward. Facilitating factors shall be defined as those in their micro systems, mezzo systems, and macro systems that encourage or facilitate the family’s recovery process. These shall include elements that foster the way the families move and look forward in life. The economic, biological-psychological, and social factors that positively affect the way they recover after the incident shall be discussed in detail. For some of the interviewed survivors, they still hold the hope for a better future for their family, and this is what motivates them to keep striving for healing (NASWEI, 2017, p. 65). The survivors also draw strength from their faith in God, as it is what helps them to continue with their lives. Oftentimes, they leave the incident up to God—for the truth, the punishment of the perpetrators, and for justice (p. 59; p. 65).

One interviewee claimed that she seeks inspiration to continue from her grandchild— “who [the victim] loved so much” (NASWEI, 2017, p. 65). For them, they can continue with their lives because they still have remaining family members whom they have to provide and care for. Moreover, the families have the support of the church, as the latter is able to provide a space where the surviving families can share their story without judgement, as well as other services such as psychosocial-spiritual support (Coronel et al., 2019). Some communities also decided to replace their fear with courage to take a stand in condemning the bloody WoD because they are adamant that those who have been killed and their surviving families did not do anything wrong to warrant such inhumane treatment (Talabong, 2019).

It was through this united support that the surviving families of the WoD hold tight to their hope for a better tomorrow, not just for themselves but for the whole community so that no one would have to suffer like they did (Martinez et al., 2019).