Michael woke from a ten-day coma after a car accident with short-term memory loss and kept asking hospital staff for his phone. The phone wasn't actually lost. He realized he was searching for something familiar to hold onto after trauma, a way to anchor himself when everything felt wrong.
After I woke up from a 10-day coma, I kept asking the same question. Have you seen my phone? Not once, not twice, for days. And I lost my short-term memory, so I only know this because my stepmom told me that every time she walked into my hospital room, I'd ask where it was. And you know the strange part? My phone wasn't actually lost. It wasn't destroyed in the car accident. It was sitting safely at home the entire time. And looking back, I don't think I was searching for my phone. No, I think I was searching for something familiar, something that reminded me who I was before everything changed, before the car accident. And when life gets turned upside down, we all search for something that feels normal. And for me, it was my phone. I'm Michael, and I coach people through exactly this. So what have you reached for when your life changed unexpectedly? Let me know. I wanna know.
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