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Why Fun?One of the most painful things about the process of recovering from any significant trauma is how darn long it takes for us to start having fun again. It's as if we think it's illegal or immoral or disrespectful, or that we owe it to ourselves or some memory of ourselves to immerse ourselves so completely in pain and suffering, guilt and grieving, loss and lovelessness, that we drown our selves in ceaseless sorrow. And so, because of our best intentions, we prolong the agony, almost passed endurance, until the very idea of fun escapes us entirely. Oddly enough, and more than ironically enough, a moment or two of healthy fun is often all we need to restore the world back to ourselves. And the more fun we allow ourselves to have, the healthier we become, the stronger, the more beautiful, the more complete. Fun, then, can be a path back, a healing path, or what I call, a playful path to wholeness.
In the first months after the accident I found DeepFun and Bernie De Koven. I wonder looking back how my life might be different if I hadn't found Bernie. He spent time with me vitrually as a "Fun Coach" of sorts, although I don't think he had a name for it back then. Bernie was my personal fun coach back then as he worked with me on a strange concept Fun and Grief. He taught me techniques and gave me tools that helped start on the process of going through a major transition and helped me to focus on the fun aspects of life during a time when my life was focused on things that were anything but fun. I don't think I can ever thank or repay Bernie for being there at a time when I really needed someone.
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