Linda, cumulative Losses

06/05/21 • 28 min

Linda had recently suffered a major business loss followed by the death of her mother. Then her big brother went into the hospital for liver transplant surgery.

Linda had recently suffered a major business loss followed by the death of her mother. Then her big brother went into the hospital for liver transplant surgery.

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Linda, deconstructing and reconstructing her life

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Three deaths and the ravaging cancer of a friend were wake-up calls. What they said to Linda Mclachlan was, "Your life is toxic and you need to change." But how can she change when what Linda typically did when confronted with uncomfortable feelings was numb herself with alcohol?

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