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In my own life, I have had some pretty
challenging experiences including childhood
depression, domestic violence in my adult life
and the challenge of being a single Mum.

During the most difficult times in my life, whilst
I clearly didn’t enjoy the way that I was feeling, I
can say without exception that every emotion
that I felt was a natural response to a situation in
my life that wasn’t ok.

These challenging emotions were giving me
“good information” and I needed to listen to
them.

And not only did I need to listen to them in
relation to the immediate circumstances I was in,
but I also needed to travel inwards more deeply
to recognize when I was bringing emotional
history forwards into my current life.

We cannot change our past’ but it has certainly
been my own experience that we can change our
relationship to our past, and in doing so we
create change within our present, which in turn
changes the shape of our future.

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