In such a particular, insecure moment, in which it is vital to think about the after in an encouraging way, we ask three pieces of advice to those who have the qualifications to offer.
Roman, film and television writer, Luciana after a career as a concert artist gives up music and teaching to devote herself full time to her family. In 2016, however, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and the event led her to question any previous life choice. It makes her understand that she is not happy. She begins a journey of introspection and redemption that will lead her to write: to put on paper reflections on life and happiness. Writing gives her the strength to revolutionize herself, to look the disease in the eye and fight it. Lucilla rediscovers herself as a new woman. Dreamy and determined, in March 2020 she published her first novel, "Diary of a delirium" (Santelli Editore) inspired by her story of rebirth. The disease helped her to become who she really is, to start over following her new ideal of happiness. Every day, without conditions, without postponing.
Hear what your 'existential delusion' has to say
Each of us has a delusion. Each at a time. In a second. Minute. Now. He had his delirium. That hidden delusion. That part of pure madness, which for better or for worse, transcends the everyday. That famous dark side that has always been studied and analyzed but which, in my opinion, has never found an answer. Because there is no answer. It is not just a childhood experience. It is something else that is mixed with much, much more. It is what we never had the courage to bring out because we grew up in a mechanism that did not allow us to look at it from the beginning. But then ... It bursts ... Suddenly, like an eruption and it can last a second, a minute, an hour. But also the rest of our life. Don't bother to stem it, try to listen to it.
Rediscover the therapeutic value of writing and art
Writing was of paramount importance during the illness. I believe that art in all its expressive forms is profoundly therapeutic. When I discovered I was as bad as everyone else, I started a personal psychological journey: it was my therapist who advised me to write. It helped me a lot. Writing allows us to fall 'face to face' with our essence: it makes us acquire awareness that often eludes us in everyday life. It is liberating and allows us to (re) see the world in a new, or forgotten, perspective. Try it.
Never stop evolving
I would like to encourage every woman to evolve, to rediscover herself thoroughly and for real, without letting herself be limited by anyone, least of all by herself. We must feel free to express ourselves, in all fields, even sexually. Everyone has resources and potential that are not wasted for any reason in the world. We do not have to wait for the arrival of a disease to question ourselves. We must do it every day and above all not be afraid to ask ourselves if we are happy, if the life we are living is consistent with what we really are. We must not allow ourselves to be influenced by a company always and inexorably male-centric that it would take only mothers and wives. We are more, we are many things, in evolution, a thousand facets that must be expressed, not silenced.
