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We are never fully prepared for death. Your heart is torn by grief because of loss. Every scene and event of daily lives haunts you with memories of the departed loved one. When a spouse dies, your life is irrevocably changed on many levels, and this kind of change can stop you from creating your new life. I had to find my way and a friend from London, England reached out and asked me to come to London for a while. Presented with the death of a loved one I once again felt the need to change my environment and flee was the choice. It was easy to find someone to lease a lovely Palm Beach house two blocks from the ocean and four blocks from Worth Avenue. Lease I did and away I flew to England.

England and Europe captivated me. For a year …show more content…

Major life changes literally shake up our world, and invite or pressure us to interact with life in new ways. To grow, we need to add and/or alter our belief systems to allow for new levels of thinking and performance. Graduate school in the field of psychology was enlightening, went by like a flash, and overall was enjoyed. A time of renewed life was experienced. Learning, discovery and understanding are valuable not only instrumentally but also for their own sake, as sources of joy and fulfillment. The degrees earned and awarded opened new doors of intellectual exploration as well as in the field of work and earning a living.

Life progressed, work was fulfilling and after a decade and a half death returned to our family and of nine siblings, the one that I had bonded most firmly with unexpectedly passed away. It was a devastating event in my family’s lives. Again, in my grieving process I wanted to escape the familiar environment and run away; thus I accepted a job across the country to Washington State.

Each time a significant death occurred in my life leaving the home port and seeking new places and new work have been evident. The moving to new places and new work was part of my grieving and healing process and while accomplishing that process my career was enhanced with each move. In addition, the deaths helped me to better understand the Christian

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