Zoe Holohan

Things developed, and I realized that the message I wanted to give out was genuinely one of resilience and proving resilience.

That as human beings, we are much stronger than we often give ourselves credit for.

We're phenomenal.

Humans are phenomenal.

And I wanted, particularly at the moment, you know, the world is a very frightening place at the moment.

There's a lot of anger and hatred out there.

And I wanted to share and I continue to want to share the message that there's absolutely beautiful, pure goodness out there, too.

You can't turn back the clock.

You can't bring back people who were killed.

And you can't, you know, wind back the clock and get me back the body or the mind that I used to have.

But I will say that I don't want to carry anger and bitterness with me in my soul as I move forward either, you know, and I strive really to live a happy life.

This is going to sound so nerdy, but I write down three things I'm grateful for every single day.

To root myself in the moment and realize how lucky I am, how lucky I am to still be here.

I'll never ultimately get over what happened, but I have allowed myself to move on.

I'm allowing myself to embrace the second chance of life properly.

The healing journey goes on, like I'm still getting surgeries, I'm still doing all that other stuff, therapies in hospital, but I'm also embracing a real life again.

This is the next stage, but I just want to reassure people that you can survive the worst and come through the other side.