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Trauma Transcendence: The Hero’s Journey
“And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more difficult than the risk to blossom” Anais Nin Trauma Transcendence: it’s more than just coping, it’s about reaching for the stars to find a world of greater meaning. When it comes to dealing with emotional pain, the journey of one’s…
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Mrs Morrison
How the innocence of youth became a shock in adulthood. Another true story. I was a seven-year-old that knew nothing about women’s sanitary products. You wouldn’t expect me to, surely? But as you would expect, my female teachers did. Privately and quietly, they knew what was what, and what what was for, if you follow…
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Near Death in a Puma Helicopter
Doing what we weren’t supposed to do in the RAF was one of my personal specialities. Doing something that a helicopter couldn’t do was just crass stupidity. There was nothing on the clock but the maker’s name. It’s a euphemism for flying so low in an aircraft that the altimeter doesn’t register any height. The…
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Spider Gap
If you’re acrachnaphobic, you’ll already know you don’t want to read this. If you aren’t, get ready to run. Royal Naval Lieutenant Jim Donnelly hated spiders. Small money spiders were bad enough, house spiders terrified him, and the thought of a palm sized hairy tarantula anywhere near him was enough to bring on the threat…
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First Day On The Squadron
You want to cut a good impression when it’s your first day on the job. … My ego armour was strong and I felt an air of impenetrability hanging around me. My inner critic allowed me a little slack so that pride and autonomy could float to the surface. Not for too long though; it turns…
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Chap 3: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Life rarely goes to plan for most of us. Whilst we’re planning happy families, great holidays, successful businesses, and great projects to propel us into wealth and fame, the devil might have other intentions to try and derail our little projects. As John Lennon famously said “life is what happens to you when you’re busy making…
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Chap 1: The Jigsaw of Life
Along with some heart-warming and some personal stories, this blog is about having the courage to pick what can easily be described as the jigsaw of life and, with all its good and bad, to throw it into the air, disassemble it, and then piece by piece create a new and meaningful mosaic that brings…
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Chap 2: Headhunters of Borneo
“Watch out for the headhunters!” Being dispatched from my Squadron to the opposite side of the world on a Jungle Survival course, known for the courses’ ability to reduce fit military men to their basic component parts of starving, shitting, scared and exhausted human beings, that parting shot from a more seasoned pilot than myself…
Love is an Action 