Glenn Hartz knows what it means to experience deep loss. After a period of general decline in health, in 2006 he lost much of his strength and right-side mobility to transverse myelitis.
As he worked through the dynamic changes in his life, he found comfort – and hope – in a 60 Minutes interview with Christopher Reeve in 1995.
“It touches on so much of what you face when you encounter an immovable obstacle.”
In a video, Glenn captured a glimpse of his own transformation from seeing the world as void of hope to one full of new opportunities. While he still struggles with the process of letting go of the past, he hopes the video might help people in a similar situation or their friends and caretakers.
It begins in a small, confined chamber. “My chamber is small. So very small,” Glenn writes. No matter how he tries, he cannot escape his chamber. He is “stuck. And everyone that loves me is stuck too.”
Then transformation begins. “But now, hope emerges,” writes Glenn as he begins to see his new life as full of opportunities he would have never otherwise experienced. As the sun rises, Glenn’s new self is also rising to meet those opportunities.
Watch Glenn’s video and experience his transformative journey from grief and loss to emergence and hope.
Be sure to share this post with someone going through a difficult time to encourage them that they too can experience a transformation.