The true trigger is never rational.
Jul 31, 2025
We often think that change is decided, that transformation is calculated, that it is planned.
We imagine that all it takes is a strategy, a list of resolutions, or a well-filled Excel spreadsheet to restore order.
But life doesn’t work that way.
I didn’t change my life because of a spreadsheet.
I changed it because everything collapsed.
There was a moment when nothing held anymore. When the certainties, the plans, and the roles in which I had confined myself crumbled.
And at that moment, it terrified me. I felt like nothing made sense anymore.
What I didn’t yet know is that this collapse was an initiation.
That it would force me to let go of everything I thought I knew… to open myself to something vaster.
When everything collapses, we feel like we’re dying a little. But in reality, it is another part of us that is born.
Science is beginning to understand what ancient wisdoms already knew:
it is often the rupture that triggers deep reorganization.
Researchers Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun, who studied post-traumatic growth, show that major shocks have this strange power: they crack our old references to push us to redefine our priorities, to find meaning, to live more consciously.
And yet, when we go through the storm, we see none of that.
We only see the void, the loss, the fear.
I share this with you because I have been there too.
And maybe you are right now.
You watch your world collapse, and you are looking for answers.
You want to understand, you want to “fix” things quickly, regain your bearings, or even exhaust yourself trying to hold onto something destined to die.
But the path is not traced with the mind.
It is lived with the body. With the heart.
When we experience a breakup, whether in love, professionally, or in identity, regardless of its nature, the nervous system goes on alert.
The body tenses, the breath shortens, the heart races.
It’s your brain screaming “danger”.
But behind this chaos, something else is happening.
Life invites you on an extraordinary journey; behind this discomfort may lie one of your greatest blessings.
Even at the biological level, your body initiates the change to this new version of you,
Did you know that in these moments of life, neuroplasticity comes into play: neural circuits reorganize.
New connections are created.
Your brain prepares you, without you realizing it, for a new version of yourself.
Researchers like Richard Davidson have shown that practices of breath regulation, heart coherence, and vagus nerve activation can accelerate this process.
The body knows how to repair itself. The heart knows how to reopen.
This path is certainly delicate, frightening, or even painful.
But it is in these spaces where everything seems lost that life returns us to ourselves.
This emptiness you feel is not a failure.
It is a passage.
An invitation to free yourself from the old layers, to let die what no longer has its place… to allow your essence to reclaim its place.
Ancient traditions called this a rebirth.
Today, science speaks of systemic reorganization.
No matter the vocabulary: it is the same truth.
If you are in this moment of collapse, I want you to know one thing:
it is not the end.
It may even be the beginning of the most alive version of yourself that you have ever known.
I know this because it is what I have gone through.
And today, it is what I support through Revhealing: creating spaces to understand, regulate, transform, recreate.
Spaces where science meets consciousness, where body and mind reconnect, where ancient wisdom comes to dialogue with the most recent discoveries.
When everything collapses, the mind panics.
But the soul knows exactly the way; trust it.




