Both my body and my mind, both myself and my family were affected by the uncontrollable persistence of an unpredictable fate.
Trauma – like mental health – takes time to recover from, and time to realize firstly how fragile life is, secondly how lucky I am and thirdly to learn the ability to contextualize.
Nowadays, we’re so used to a good and fast life that we often don’t pay attention enough to situations, events or details undergoing our life.
Trauma forces us to open an eye on them and to realize that they actually exist. But when we open our eyes this way, we often feel alone, detached from everything and from everyone, isolated and stuck in an empty bowl.
Contextualizing gives us the opportunity to reestablish connections with the world and reality; it helps us to focus attention and open our mind to the immense world of positive relationships we can establish and manage to move on towards a new and improved life.
And when we do like this, we understand that we can do, and that we’re not tied down to the bad events of the past: we can change and evolve, and this is what push us towards success.