An Evolving Man Podcast
An Evolving Man Podcast
Piers Cross
Why Change Feels So Uncomfortable After Boarding School | Piers Cross
4 minutes Posted Aug 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
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Why can transitions feel disproportionately difficult for former boarders? In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross reflects on his own nervousness before leaving for a workshop and retreat—and explores how apparently ordinary transitions can activate much older emotional patterns. Drawing on the work of Nick Duffell and Thurstine Basset in Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege, Piers considers how leaving home repeatedly as a child can make later transitions—holidays, trav...