Ep 50 | TRAILER | Growth Happens At The Edges: Overcoming Loss and Finding Purpose feat Anni Townend

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It was other people's comments, feedback tome that I think made me realise that I was
a bit directionless. I was, you know, in I didn'treally know why I was doing the degree. I found
it interesting. I rarely spoke in seminar groups,hardly ever, if at all. And that was partly

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because of. my upbringing and feeling that itwas better to be quiet rather than to ask questions.
So I definitely internalised some of the messagesthat I had received and I was not speaking
out.

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When I came back home to live with my parents,it was difficult for them and for me because
I'd had five years of being away and only beingat home during holidays, which had not been
easy really. We'd had fun times, but they werealso quite difficult fitting back in and not

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feeling like I did. Remember that I'd changedto a certain extent the way I spoke. So then
my friends at the local church where my parentsattended, they thought I was posh. And then
when I went back to school, I had to rememberto speak like I spoke when I was at school.

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So I felt this sense of not fitting in eitherat home or at school.
with my partner, became pregnant, was happy,delighted, felt really confident in my body

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and my work in myself and was doing work withwomen-only groups on, you know, our body, ourselves
was a book that informed my practice. I wasvery involved in a number of different communities.
And then this thing happened. And it was a tremendousloss on a par, but very different from the

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sense of loss of identity I had felt in my lateteens when I had the really traumatic experience.
And clearly having an ectopic pregnancy at threemonths was very traumatic and was also life-threatening.

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