A few years ago I went through a crisis that I would never think would actually affect my life so profoundly and drastically. In the ebs and flow of life you always hear these things happening to other people and take for granted as you offer up a tired whisper of a prayer every night in gratefulness, that’s not your life.
Through my life I have experienced childhood rape, abusive relationships and failed marriages. In fact I always say I have lived way too many lives for one person. I have lost my wealth, I have lost dear and close friends, I lost my church community, I lost my home, I lost my businesses.
Over this time my sons and I have shifted homes 8 times following a messy ugly and exhausting divorce and with that failing at relationships from Bedroom to Boardroom trying to get my groove back.
However apart from all the mess of my not so pretty life story nothing has hit harder or affected my life so much than loosing my health.
As a natural born leader, blessed with purposely designed skills and talents to empower, develop and motivate, I never worked a day in my life. And so the mosaic tapestry of my talents and skills took me into all corners of perople driven industries of skills development, training and Leadership. I was happy. Until one day it all so suddenly became difficult to do. I no longer could stand in a training room all day and do life with what I am so passionate about. I no longer could lecture on human resources, train up businesses or manage a staff of over a thousand on all matters HR, Labour and Training. My days of walking from one end of a construction site to another advising on and effecting change in Health and Safety conditions, policy and procedures. I no longer could get on a bus, a flight, in my car with all my facilitation tricks and tech support at the drop of a hat. Ooooh and let me tell you, there is nothing more excillirating than two or three weeks on the road off to meet new people and experience new places while doing what you love.
Tessa Green (2)
