ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author shares her experiences as a psychologist. As a social scientist, and on the basis of her own personal experiences, the author believes that there is much to be learned from the individual narrative. She had been engaged in the experiential analysis of her own migration story as a research project. The experiences she want to share refer to the uprootedness of the second half of her life as well as to the intense experiences involved in that two-week trip to Cuba. The visit provoked her innumerable reflections on the experience of uprootedness in her life and on the significance of having lived half of her life away from the country of birth. The loss experienced by an uprooted person encompasses not only the big and obvious losses of country, a way of life, and family. The pain of uprootedness is also activated in subtle forms by the everyday absence of familiar tasks of daily life.
