Instant Pivotal Crisis, What is it?
and How Can it Destroy/Enhance You
Avoiding an instant pivotal crisis is not possible. You will never be in such circumstances nor control wherein you will be completely immune to them.
First, Let’s Find Out What it is
Well, It is one of those hot minutes when your body is instantly reacting in fight, flight or freeze. It is also one of those tornado times when you’re finding yourself being snatched up and plunked down in an entirely new and unknown direction. And lastly, it is one of those incomparable nanoseconds of crisis when you are forgetting to breathe. You aren’t hearing or seeing in any normalcy while a primal scream is ricocheting inside your head.
Instant Pivotal Crisis examples
It is Instant, no warning; Pivotal, your life is pivoting in a totally new direction; it’s a Crisis (critical). Your loved one unexpectedly dies. Without warning, you learn that your financial situation is irrevocably altered. Getting fired from your job after years of dedication. Miscarrying a fetus. Receiving a deadly health diagnosis. Your lover breaking up with you. Your spouse tells you they want a divorce. Being left at the altar. Your home burning down. Your child seriously injured. Undoubtedly, you can think of plenty more.
IPC’s don’t have to reach such injurious proportions to be life altering. The type and degree of trauma will depend on the individual and their circumstances.
It’s likely you have experienced one or more. They crashed into your world like a meteorite and you felt destroyed. You realize your life will never be the same and can’t imagine you will survive this.
How Do You Survive and Go On?
Firstly, you will survive, you will.
IPC’s are a part of your life, they have a purpose and they really test your mettle! Know that you are not being punished and you’ve done nothing to deserve such pain, but it has happened and somehow you are still here.
When your brain begins to function in some semblance of normalcy, you are able to put yourself in circumstances that can lessen the pain. You’ll begin setting up the conditions for you to bounce back. Eventually you are regaining your zest for life after it knocked you down.
As I’ve said, IPC’s have a purpose. They put you in an ideal place to grow and it is when you are enduring our hardest battles, you are doing your greatest growth.
Allow yourself to lean on others, accept support, and take each day one at a time, one hour at a time.
Healing Awaits
A couple of years ago, this subject of IPC’s visited me repeatedly, so much so, I began to question why. I believe in listening to one’s ‘gut’ or intuition and eventually realizing I had a fair amount of experience with IPC’s. I was still alive, kicking and humerous, so why not help others by telling my stories and how I survived.
Two years later my seven IPC stories have been written in a book. Including tools I learned and consistently use to help myself and others swim upstream and be better for it. One of my first readers posted, “Fran, I found your book to be so meaningful. I look at you and think- she’s quite the lady – a survivor. Thank you for sharing your story”.
If you are wanting to delve further into ICP’s and come out ahead alive and well, my book is titled, “Born to Bounce Back” by Frances Teagan and is being purchased on Amazon.
There is also a great deal more information on my website http://www.borntobounceback.ca
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