“Interpreting existential challenges
as opportunities – successfully
rediscovering one’s role.”
Karin Reichwein
We all have plans for our lives and clear ideas about what constitutes a successful life. But if our lives are subjected to an unexpected change we haven’t deliberately initiated we often find ourselves deep in crisis. These major crises might be triggered by an accident or a life-threatening disease, for example. The situation changes at the moment the affected person becomes conscious of their new situation. Nothing now appears the same as it was even a few days ago. This constitutes an existential challenge to the system: on top of financial worries there are major anxieties affecting the person’s psyche. How can life go on under the new, altered circumstances? What point is there to life any more? Why and how has this happened? The person’s life plan will be called into question for ever. Now it’s important to reconsider and reassess the overall situation, to accept these major changes in our lives and show the affected person the best solutions and opportunities. From research and our own personal experience we know that good advice and support when these existential changes first occur will have a significant influence on the affected person’s quality of life and process of recovery. The individual concerned is not the only person to suffer: all those around them – their partner, family, children and close relatives – are affected too and are often equally overwhelmed by the new situation. From experience we can say that even at the outset it is possible to effect very successful measures to help the healing and recovery process as much as possible – in areas such as processing trauma, making important decisions concerning medical diagnoses, personal well-being and releasing the individual’s resources for their personal recovery. We are happy to support you – here too on an interdisciplinary basis – and help you get to your life back on track and rediscover your joie de vivre.
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