Supportive & Wise Wisdom

I am a middle child who grew up in mid-town Toronto in the 50s. I’ve spent my life trying to please everyone and fix everything, I’m turning seventy and still learning that I can’t. I am still too agreeable and eager to please and placate but I’m growing stronger year by year. At the age of twelve I underwent open heart surgery to repair an atrial valve defect. My grandmother repeated “Be a good soldier”; words that became my life motto. I married at the ridiculously young age of eighteen to my high school sweetheart, he was a real catch. Forty-five years later he left me for a woman almost the same age as our daughter, something I would never have imagined. I spent my married years raising our family, teaching, and then building a successful career in the world of consulting. A career I never wanted but was necessary to support our family. I was a good soldier. I’m smart but anxious, friendly but solitary, well read, and playful, and as a result of my consulting career, I’m a great listener and good at asking seriously great questions.