My youngest child is sixteen years old. It’s been a long time since she had any real attachment to the multitude of stuffed animals that had found their way into our hearts and home. Somehow though, holding onto them seemed right for a very long time… until this past weekend.
Like the room with my daughter’s stuffed animals, Consilium ® DC has been bursting at the seams. We’re ready to launch a curriculum to teach our unique process that merges psychology and law, and that birthed the Consilium ® Process. We need space to spread our wings and allow ourselves to make CDC all that it has the capacity to be. The most immediate, available space we have is the space that was housing all those stuffed animals. As with all journeys, divorce or otherwise, we needed to start the next chapter of our process by clearing what is, and making room for what is to come. I took a very deep breath in. We then began to sort the much-loved animals. Though it was not an easy process, we found that of the seventy-five collected, only twenty were truly “keepers”. Fifty-five will find their way into new hearts and new homes through Heading Home, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending homelessness in Greater Boston. Heading Home provides life skills, financial literacy and job training, and moves people from homelessness to self-sufficiency. I’ve been fortunate to work with Heading Home to outfit apartments for families who’ve readied themselves, and earned them. And I’ve been privileged to witness resilience and strength in those families.
Giving those much-loved animals new homes gives me an opportunity to make room for the next stage of Consilium’s growth. I can now exhale that deep breath in.