"Part 5: Michel Fortin's In Search Of Heroes Inteview" by Ralph Zuranski
Michel Fortin and Sylvie Charrier found their soulmate in each other and were recently married. Just before their marriage, Sylvie discovered she had a lump in her breast that was cancerous.
She is one of the internet heroes I have yet to interveiw because both my parents are near death and on hospice. It is a full time job keeping them alive.
Sylvie and Michel are sharing Sylvie's experiences with regaining her health in her blog at: BreastCancerVictory Michel's heroes interview was so inspiring, I felt moved to publish it in the In Search Of Heroes Blog.
Michel's response to his wife's health challenges is simply amazing. When you read his interview, you will realize why I chose him as one of my heroes. When you read about Sylvie's pathway back to health, you will understand why she is one of the most inspiring people I have ever met.
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Ralph Zuranski: You know, people, you know, they fear to do anything because they fear they’re gonna fail and when catastrophic events like that occur to some people, they never recover. Would you say that it’s those events that change the course of our life for the better?
Michel Fortin: Those events are those that do change your life but you have to – there’s, like, you know, like death. There’s a grieving process to go through. When you’re in the thick of things at that moment in your life you’ll probably be depressed. You’ll probably have a hard time trying to see the lesson for what it is.
Michel Fortin: But when you have a chance to go through the grieving process, this pseudo-grieving process I guess is a better way to call it, take a step back and look at your – I mean, that’s why I’m a big believer in writing in journals. In fact, the book that I just mentioned just not too long ago was a book that was actually a way to write to my own self on how to deal with the things that I was going through in my life but it was like writing in my own journal because that way you can teach yourself to be better.
Michel Fortin: You can teach yourself to accept things better. You can teach yourself to get out of that rut. You can teach yourself – you know, Jim Rohn said it best.
Michel Fortin: If you are in a low point in your life, go help out somebody else who’s in a low point and the same low point as you because by teaching others you, you know, or by helping others, you are actually helping your own self because then you can take a step back and say well, gosh, I’m telling this person how to get out of this situation and I’m in the situation myself and then you realize, because what happens is you let this intuition flow, this consciousness flow and you realize that you will get out of that rut by doing that so at that, yeah, to answer your question, to me that’s what I would do.
Michel Fortin: actually writing in a journal but most often when you have an opportunity to, you know, go through the grieving process, do, be depressed, be – those are things, you know, if you’re unhappy because something really bad happened to you that’s perfectly fine, but then when that’s done take a step back and then you’ll learn, you’ll see the lesson for what it is and you’ll grow from it.
Michel Fortin: Some people, they don’t step back, so what they do is they keep themselves in that depression mode. Some people have bad things happen to them in their lives and they stay there for a very, very long time simply because they want to stay in there. Wayne Dyer said it best, your body has a natural ability to heal itself. If you have a cut on your arm are you going to force it to stay open so that you – because you want the world to see hey, look, I have an open wound here. I’m hurting, I’m hurting, take care of me.
Michel Fortin: Or even yourself, because it gives you some feeling of grandeur, the fact that you are hurting, the fact that you are, you know, because it means something to you. No, your body’s natural process is to heal its own self. The same way if something bad happens to you emotionally or psychically as well as physiologically.
Michel Fortin: Your body has a natural tendency to heal itself. Let the healing do its own job. It takes time. You don’t heal overnight of a cut wound just as you won’t heal overnight of a bad situation or a bad event that happened in your life, but once you heal now is the chance – that scar, you know what scar tissue is. That tissue is your body’s process to strengthen that one area that was broken.
Michel Fortin: You know bones that are broken, when they heal become even stronger than they were before. That’s the process of even a bad event that happens in your life. Something bad happens to you and once you’ve healed yes, you will have scars, but you can turn your scars into stars because those scars are like shields that will protect you in case this stuff happens again and it will make you stronger and I believe in that totally.