"מתוך ההבנה וההכרה שהפציעה הפוסט-טראומטית, וההתמודדות הממושכת איתה מביאות לפגיעה דרמטית בתפקוד היומיומי וביכולות מימוש השאיפות האישיות, משימתנו היא להעניק ללוחמים וללוחמות סביבה בטוחה, טבעית, ויצרנית שתאפשר להם לסלול נתיבים חדשים של מסוגלות והגשמה, בדרך לשילוב מיטבי בחברה"
תומר וינברג, מייסד העמותה
I founded the TERRA UMA association in April 2022 after many years of dealing with post-trauma that developed in me following a serious injury at the beginning of the Second Lebanon War. For many years I unsuccessfully tried to return to the function I was in before the injury, until I finally came to terms with the blowouts and my inability to change the situation.
Several years ago, I lost my late father Yitzchak in a motorcycle accident. The deep connection with him, which had grown stronger since the injury, was suddenly severed.
What was supposed to be the "knockout" of my life turned out to be their resurrection.
My father had a makeshift home winery where he made wine as a hobby. During the shiva I stared at the wine barrel that stood in the center of the house and promised my father that I would continue his hobby. I did not know then, that I had made one of the most important decisions of my life. I couldn't understand that I had received the entrance ticket back to life from Dad.
I took my first steps in the world of wine with Assaf Margalit at Margalit Winery and with the Haifa Wortman wine family. Leaving the house to work in the vineyards and winery awakened something in me that had been off for years. I felt that I and the wine in the barrel were going through similar processes. The fermentation, the sediment, the breath. Everything spoke directly to my soul. In the vineyard the mind calmed down and the body relaxed.
Later I started professional studies in the field and after not long I established a small winery in the warehouse under the house. Suddenly there was something to get up for in the morning. For the first time in a decade I had an answer to the question "What do you do in life?". The sense of ability and worth began to strengthen, the connection to agricultural work and the exciting wine product reawakened in me the passion for life.
After a year in the world of wine I realized that something big had happened to me, something that no medication or other treatment had been able to do until that time. Self-confidence increased, triggers decreased, motivation and abilities reawakened.
As I summed up the past year, I saw how all the pieces were falling into place. Everything came together and became very clear. The relaxing connection to the earth, the meditative activity in the vineyard, the senses that sharpened and worked continuously and pleasantly in the winery, the deep connection to the processes of the soul and the sediments we accumulate in it - and the wine barrel and the sediments that form in it, and of course the final and exciting product.
At this point, the question "can this help other guys like me" began to burn in my mind.
This is how the vision was born, this is how the decision to establish the association matured.
for life :)
Tomer
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