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I am tackling this one head on. Coercive control can be sneaky you don't always see it coming but it chips away at your life, independence, your finances and your self-esteem until you start questioning yourself. You lose your spark, your independence, always walking on thin ice or having to ask for permission for simple things. Your life is no longer yours instead something that is created for the purposes of control. You become a puppet in your own life, knowing something

Let's face it 2020 was a strange and challenging year for most of us. For me in the positive, it was the start of my journey learning about reiki and energy and leaning into my spiritual side in order to overcome uncertainty, anxiety and fear. In the negative, my relationship was fracturing, my kids were scared, I was concerned about running out of toilet paper, my children, my health, our future and I was being bullied into getting the covid vaccine in order to keep my job.

I can officially say I have indeed been hit by a truck. The kids and I were out of nowhere taken out by a truck a few weeks ago and came away miraculously without serious injuries and this is what I learnt: Extreme gratitude - for life, family, my partner and my kids, friends, my Honda Civic who took the hit and for being protected. I was also increadibly grateful for the emergency services and five bystanders for their kindness, service and support during a vulnerable moment

People say it takes courage to walk away, to start a new life, sounds great right? What they don't tell you is just how many people will exit your life in the process, how many interests, groups, connections, communities and parts of self that also get left behind. It's certainly hard not to take people's advice, judgment, disappointments and perceptions to heart, but you discover the truth lies within those small parts of self we still recognise they are the ones that with s

Even in our darkest days we have a light inside us that if we lean into and trust and encourage it to grow we are capable of getting through or achieving anything.