Life is messy.
The unpredictable rock bottom of trauma, transition, or just the insidious status quo can creep up like the Kraken and leave you and your life in pieces.
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood.”
– Margaret Atwood
The term “all hell broke loose” is apt.
It’s easy to ruminate on the injustice or the sense of hopelessness that comes with the messy unknown in between who we were, and who we are now after impact.
But even while we move through anger and grief in the midst of adversity, the seeds of resilience and inevitable transformation are germinating.
As a psychotherapist, I have found my own adult trauma to be an opportunity to observe a case from the inside out. I set out to apply every intervention I had shared with patients over the past decade – my own N of 1 research experiment, which continues to this day.
Resilience requires mindful intentionality.
Life is inherently painful and unfair, and we can also train every day to better tend to our own suffering after the storm.
Whatever it is or was – divorce, cancer, a loss, or losing your sense of direction in life – we are called to author the next steps forward in our journeys. We don’t have to do that work alone; I’m not sure we even can.
You landed here for a reason. You are invited to join the community, integrate what resonates, and lean in to your own hero’s journey.