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Belonging to an international religious order has allowed me to work nationally and internationally. Getting to know sisters from different countries and learning about the people with whom they live and work has enriched and challenged me. I now live in Watford in Hertfordshire. After spending some years as a health visitor in Central London where I met many people struggling to cope with life, I decided to train as a psychiatric nurse. The training enabled me to gain skills in helping people to cope creatively with change enabling them, where possible, to find new meaning in life and to believe in themselves once again. As we depend on one another for our identities and understandings of our world, the daily challenge is to try to help people to find the strength, confidence and motivation to believe that in reaching out to another human being they will be able to move through the darkness of their emptiness and pain into new life. |