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women. My team and I had spent three years
developing a project designed to cast-off constraining
beliefs and reveal liberating natural-born strengths in
men and women. We called the project Purpose Quest.
Although the techniques were developed for all
types of people, WRED aimed their program at women
living in particularly belligerent surroundings (though
men could attend if they wanted). Many of the their
lives were changed immediately.
A troubled woman in her late thirties, Susan
attended one of these workshops. She lived on her
husband’s family farm thirty miles north of Toronto. It
was her duty to cook, clean, shop and wait on her in-
laws: mother, father, brother and uncle as well as help
them out around the farm when things got hectic.
Susan was at her wits end: insecure, depressed and
anxious. We began by telling her it’s okay to not feel
okay. That it really helps to allow yourself to feel
whatever emotions are coming up. “Everywhere I turn,
I’m marooned,” she said. “I don’t know whether to go
forward, backward. left right. I don’t know which way
to turn.”
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