Trauma and resilience

Paradoxes

La vie est faite de mille expériences et émotions contradictoires, toutes méritent d’être embrassées et recèlent de l'énergie vitale

Rebirth and recreation (reconceiving trauma, last part)

August 18, 2019, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, last days of a memorable trip. How could I have imagined, 15 months ago when I woke up without a...

Trauma as revelation (reconceiving trauma, part 7)

Trauma may bring with it a kind of x-ray vision through the surface of things. Trauma is a tragic reality, without nothing glamorous,...

Call to the community (reconceiving trauma, part 6)

Soon after hearing my diagnostic, I strongly realized I needed moral support like never in my life. I was longing for a family showing me...

Call to the Real (reconceiving trauma, part 5)

Some months ago, before to discover I had a bone cancer and to face my amputation, I was living in what I know now as an illusion. I was...

Through the underwold and back (reconceiving trauma part 3-4: rite of passage - initiation)

I will remember all my life the moment where I entered into the surgery room, a few minutes before the beginning of my amputation. I've...

Reconceiving trauma, part 2: portal to the liminal

Passing through cancer and leg amputation, it didn't take long for me to realize that I was entering into a very strange space. No...

My new teacher

Let me introduce you to my new teacher: my prosthesis, spending hours with me each day and constantly making me discover some precious...

Reconceiving trauma, part 1: universal transformational force

Thirteen days after my amputation, just back home, I found this image on a site by a guy called Edward Tick who works in US with war...

Strange lands to explore

Amputation, fear of the recurrence of cancer that has been removed, daily frustrations, pains, and tensions, the look of pity of the...

My beautiful flamingo

I’ve never been specially fond of flamingos… until recently. Soon after my amputation, a friend of mine was walking in a park in Geneva....