Surviving Devastation
How to Build Back When All Is Lost
I began this year recovering from a car accident. Twice a week I was going to physical therapy for traction and treatments on my spinal column. At my third evaluation, they told me I needed to come back for another six weeks. “Another six weeks? How long till this is over?” I asked. “Oh it won’t be over, you have nerve damage. You’ll live with this for the rest of your life.” So I quit. I didn’t have the patience or finances to keep it up indefinitely. They had given me the tools to do the exercises at home. So I went home in pain to do them.
In February my phone rang and with that call my entire reality got ripped out from underneath me. I found out that my relationship with the person I trusted most in this world, and maybe the only person I really trusted completely was a lie and had been for a long time. It triggered every single self esteem issue I had with my body and mind since I was six years old and it left me gutted & filled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
There was no time for tears or dealing with any of that though, because on March 3rd a massive tornado ripped directly through my neighborhood in East Nashville destroying the lives, homes and businesses of my closest friends, clients and neighbors. And in the aftermath, it was only a matter of days before Coronavirus hit. And it hit us hard.
