Finding your Way During Life Trauma
Finding your way through life trauma is a life skill. ALL humans have had these traumatic moments, some more extreme than others.
As we age, some situations feel more extreme because you have the responsibility to deal with it.
MAD has always been framed around Make a Difference, but the phase 1 core removed evolves into an entirely different business model and provides a CLASSIC life lesson, to all who can invite it in.
MAD Iterations
MAD was founded and turns out grounded in MAKE a DIFFERENCE… A difference for me; for you; for them.
The trauma of transition goes like this. In recovery and exit from a hostile divorce, I chose to re-brand my whole real estate business, hidden, prepped, and ready to launch…then it happens. The next layer of Trauma hits like a brick to the face. OUCH! Nothing will work the way it was planned…Nothing.
In the case of MAD Realty Solutions, the real estate focus slid away and landed towards the bottom. It happened FAAAST! It is interesting how I identified myself as a real estate agent, running a real estate team. I was gutted by this revelation and so were others.
When the trap door of life trauma opens and you fall through, your identification as one thing shreds away quite suddenly. There is a naked jolt and then in my case, a decision between slipping into the trauma from the trauma, or to pivot. This very much feels like a spiritual evolution AND exactly the path I want to hold space for others, when they are in it.
Hiding in the Thick of Things
The transitional jolt is extreme and emotional. So is the recovery and re-entry. Everyone is swept up by the intensity. The life lessons are profound if you are paying attention…even if you are not paying attention, you will catch one or two life lessons.
Again the life lessons are profound and inescapable. These lessons and our response define our character for our own expanded future. When a life transition hits it takes you out at the knees, the heart, the head… I could go on. The reality in most cases is friends and loved ones are there to support immediately, but this is short-term. They are not prepared to walk the whole journey with you and quite frankly, distance quickly.
The Lemonade made in Life Transitions
Due to the above, the MAD re-frame was inevitable. Since this is personal/not personal, but about a company life force rather than someone dying suddenly, or hospice, or… It is a little easier to share. I built the entire MAD part 2 around life transitions. I recognize I needed support AND so do others. Fully trained in life trauma intensity, with a heart built to hold space for others, I designated myself as a private concierge. I now begin to gather others to give back…Giving back gathers a crowd.
There was a divine level of conspiracy to re-route my business to get me to the heart of the matter. Now here I am… MAD Transitions. I just know how painful the jolt is AND how difficult it is to move from a flat line of stress to a pivot. Truly deflated, depressed, and ready to give up. I’m still in it so forgive me if I ramble or stutter in a PTSD moment. I AM Good at Life Transitions, but this IS EXTREME! All life transitions are.
What we do with these life transitions defines the rest of our days as a human. I’ve always been extreme this way, so here goes philosophical… Leading to this moment, my life transitions have been layered. I don’t wish for this, just the way it happens. My destiny I suppose and a great training to find compassion and empathy for others. Time will tell if this is a true and repeatable business model. I want to drag others with me into the eye opening, during the heart slam. This is some sort of spiritual ceremony perhaps. Talk about trauma bonding…wowee.
The Baby Boomers, and GEN X, shouldering the responsibilities of these life traumas now need support…
Enter MAD Transitions: Doing what we can, because we can.
Wondering If I even have a choice – lol. This generational description represents millions of us hammered by life transitions and trying to be the one to walk forward, while pulling the sheet over our heads. We are starting a new movement and recognize giving back as a special talent by the way! The letting go to move forward is a challenging process.
It is important to walk with you (especially at your turning points of burn out and action), but also wake you up so you can have more compassion for yourself or others on the other side of the life transition. Family and loved ones dare not walk too far on this path…they have their own life transitions to tend. The Fierce Strangers are the ones who can carry you for some of the next steps.
It seems obvious that I’m laced with extreme life transition skills, AND willing to recruit the right people to walk the whole path with you…The rest is up to you as a client. What do you choose?
Here we go…
