Sonia lost her companion when she was 23 years old.

That was 19 years ago.

She recounts her grieving journey towards resilience in a book.

At the microphone of Olivier Delacroix, on "La Libre antenna" of Europe 1, Sonia explains that the writing and the feedback on her book led her to recovery.

TESTIMONY

19 years ago, Sonia lost her companion, whom she presents as the love of her life.

They were both 23 years old at the time.

She recalls her journey of mourning in a book, the writing of which was therapeutic.

Sonia explains that the exchanges with her readers, who share their experiences, give meaning to her book.

She rejoices as her story is useful to others.

At the microphone of "La Libre antenna", on Europe 1, Sonia tells about her path towards resilience. 

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"19 years ago, I lost the love of my life. His name was Christophe. I was 23 and he too. Life is turned upside down for everyone and we don't prepare for it. C 'is brutal, especially at the age of 20. One evening, he did not come home. He died in a motorcycle accident on the way home. In the morning, I got up and did not have it. found near me. I thought something had happened. I had a hunch.

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You have to live for those who have left

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I told myself that I had to go to the hospital.

In the meantime, the gendarmes intercepted me and asked me to accompany them.

The result was tragic.

We don't want to hear it, we don't want to understand it.

Everything collapses.

This story goes back 19 years.

Since then, I have climbed back up.

Everyone has their way.

Some cannot get over it.

You have to live for those who have left, put them in the spotlight, bring them to life by remembering them, always talking about them.

You always have to be positive and rebuild yourself. 

It is a path that I have made.

These trials have served me well.

I learned and grew thanks to these trials.

They allowed me to open my eyes to what life represented.

I've been honoring life every day for all this time.

I have often been told that I am resilient and I do not know this term.

That's exactly it: to have this ability to bounce back, despite the hardships experienced and to make it positive, to make it beautiful.

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It was therapeutic writing

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I wrote a book.

It was first of all a therapeutic writing.

Finally, I gave my experience to the general public.

I was already in the healing phase while writing.

I am even more so with the release of this book, because I have feedback from readers.

They exchange with me and share their life journey.

We learn from our experiences.

This is the whole point of my book.

I published it for that.

Writing has helped me.

But if I was ready to write, it was because I was already calm and serene about my past.

I had to write it down, I had to reveal it for it to be useful.

I try to convey messages of hope for life.

These exchanges with the readers who in turn feed me even more and make me even more positive than I already was.

If my story can be used for that, it helps me even more because it makes sense.

My mission was to say that life must go on, that it is beautiful despite everything, that it must be honored every day.

My path is not finished.

I am on the right track.

We can be at peace one day.

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Today, I have rebuilt myself.

I started my family.

I married the man of my life.

I am fulfilled.

It is a heritage that I pass on to my children.

I know they will use it for their future life.

They will be armed.

Life is not all rosy.

Anything can happen, but the important thing is to live your life and to live it with intensity and love.

I dedicated my book to my children, because they had to know.

It's an open-mindedness, a philosophy of life that I try to bring to them in my own way, with my story. "