From the desk of Karen Chaston
18 January 2021
Re: Revitalise Your Life to Receive the Meaning behind your loss
Dear Magnificient One,
In the last five years, I had hundreds of friends and acquaintances ask me how I did it. How I was able to recover from losing my son and my career, and, keep a smile on my face.
Everyone wanted to know what I did. How I did it. I felt different. I looked different.
I am a better friend. A better partner. And a better person because of two massive loss events that happened to me within a very short period of time.
I find loss either holds you down or it changes you.
The changes can be a good thing or a bad thing. It all depends on your perspective.
I’ve heard from many people who become quite insulated. They stay at home, lose track of time, and don’t function the same after a divorce, losing a family member, or losing their career. These are the people that I see as being held down by their losses.
Then there are the people who are fundamentally changed.
The ones who get sucked into the bad wave of change often tell me about how their family doesn’t want to be near them, or, how they don’t have friends anymore, or, that they don’t have any friends any more. And for many, that didn’t choose the bad wave, COVID-19 only amplified this perspective for them, without them realising this could happen.
Then the good change, the change that literally empowers you to feel more alive, more divinely connected, more joyful, and more grateful every day. Realising the meaning of the loss event.
I realise that you are reading this letter today, maybe thinking…
“Why did this happen to me? I want to be the person who has a good, positive change, but I feel like I’m stuck in the daze. I want to understand why this happened to me, but no one seems to understand me. I want to know why no one seems to care anymore.”
Or maybe you are frozen. You find yourself staring out the window at 9am when you wake, and stuck in your lounge chair at 5pm, wondering where the day went…
Or maybe you are the way I was when I was hit with my son’s loss. I just worked harder, ate more, drank more, and avoided the loss all together.
Whichever way you find yourself in, there’s one thing that I know for sure. There’s one secret. There’s one key. There’s an important step that you have to take to really understand why you had this loss.
It starts with you.
Your life. Your reason. Your purpose. The meaning behind why this has all happened.
This one answer will change your perspective.
But, you have to take the first step. You must say YES to you.
I call this first step “Revitalise Your Life”.
You see the answers come when you reconnect with the loss event. You have all the answers inside of you, but unfortunately, therapy, counseling, and crying aren’t always the best way for you to get it.
I realised after years of searching for the answers, that the only way for me to understand why my son, Dan, passed was to stop.
For me, it took years to figure out loss and receive what I now call the “Gift of Loss”, or what many call “The Meaning” of your loss events.
After working with hundreds of people from around the world, I kept hearing the same thing over and over again within the first week of working together. They kept saying, “I feel like a new person. I haven’t felt this connected to myself in years.”
You see, what happens when you lose someone, when you lose a career, or when suffer from multiple loss events all in one go, is that you stop.
You forget what your dreams were. You forget what you wanted. You forget what was important to you.
For many people, when they lose a partner or a close family member, or experience a major divorce or separation, they lose their identity in the world.
For many of my clients, they stopped looking after themselves because their family, career, or partner became their priority. Whether they were in a relationship where their partner was the breadwinner, or, their child suffered a long cancer journey, then passed away, or, they experienced a sudden abrupt career ending where you felt you were really making a difference
This is why I designed this simple, easy to follow, Revitalise Your Life program. Often this is the hardest step. It’s why I have broken it down into 45 days, one step a day, that takes about 5 to 10 minutes to do, so it is gentle, easy to fit into your day, and realistic given your fragile emotions.
I realised that the only way to receive the meaning and gift of your loss event(s), is to do what I call ReVitalise Your Life.
Re means to restart. Begin again. Repeat. Vitalise means energy. And Your Life is about focusing on your life. So for us, on this 45 day journey, we are going to bring a fresh new energy to your life.
With this new found energy, you’ll get more of you back. You’ll gain greater awareness. You’ll gain a stronger connection to God and divine energy. You’ll become more self aware. And you’ll feel way more in control of where your life is heading and how you choose to live.
The Revitalise Your Life Program was designed with all of this in mind. It’s the first step in assisting you to reconnect to you. To make you a priority in your life.is about giving you meaning and purpose and receiving the gift meant for you in your loss event.
You’ll gain structure that you can follow and self care routines that only take 5 to 10 minutes a day, that will help you feel more like the old you.
Each day you will receive a short video and an activity for the day.