Catherine Coldstream
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329 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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I'd seen others breaking and I thought, why are so many people in my age group?
We were the younger ones, you know.
Why are so many people having breakdowns?
And a few people had to go to hospital and they had to leave because they were sick.
Having, you know, mental breakdowns and things.
And I thought, gosh, you know, the pressure is so great.
Maybe I'm going to have a breakdown.
So I kind of ran away to maybe avoid reaching breaking point, actually.
Yeah, but I did go back after that for two years.
So I hadn't reached breaking point yet.
I don't think I did reach breaking point in the sense that, you know, I was ever made, you know, I think I always retained a sense of buoyancy and hope somehow on some level.
And maybe that's why I had to leave.
I was worried that I'd be broken if I stayed.
I think going back to monasticism after having done something as dramatic as running away meant it was never going to be the same again.
And although there was a large part of me that was very at home in the Carmelite life in that later stage, I think I eventually realised that part of me had moved on, part of me had...
developed beyond what what could really be held within the cloistered life um i'd done too much questioning by then and i felt um i think i just felt ultimately that it was the right thing to do um yeah but it was uh it was very difficult
Again, beautifully put question because it was dual.
It was two edged.
The hardest thing was the noise.
I was very used to a completely silent world.
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