Aged 4 I left Canada and arrived in an alien land, post war England. Aged 22, I left England, then my home and all my friends and returned to Canada. In 1995 I left Toronto and came to PEI. All these changes have been seminal in shaping me. All have involved loss as well as gain. Now I leave PEI, the process of loss and gain digs in again.
This seems to be a powerful pattern for me. Looking back at the work I did when I left the corporate world I found this piece:
I see my life as a series of chapters of a book that while it has a common theme, the essence of myself, requires me to put away strategies and concepts from each prior stage to enable me to see what is required for the next.
At each juncture, and this is one, some of the behaviours and beliefs that enabled me in the previous part are now potentially disabling.
I sek to examine what parts of the tree should be pruned to allow the new growth.
