I’m a walking example of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
I’ve grown up in a violent environment. Before the age of 18 I watched my brother die, saw a parent try to commit suicide multiple times, battled with addictions and experienced domestic violence as both a victim and the helpless, hopeless onlooker.
Despite this, and the rest, I’m taking the salary of the average career professional through their peak at the age of just 25, and the future is looking like its ready to eclipse my achievements to date. I’m very aware that without my life’s adversities, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Sandra’s story – Hypnotism and Weight Loss
I lost weight after being hypnotised. Actually it wasn’t about the losing weight…
David’s Prostate Problems
December 2016 – a business trip for the day, 100 miles from home – and suddenly I couldn’t pee!
Realising I had depression and anxiety and learning to live with it
I was never a particularly happy child. In fact when I was eight I needed my first batch of therapy. I was haunted by an existential dread of death coupled with contemplations of suicide. I had awful nightmares and would sometimes declare I would jump from the tall block of flats I lived in at the time.
Defying Medical Predictions
My name is Martha and I am 82 years old. I was a lifelong smoker and when I was 73 years old, it all caught up with me.
Simon’s Recovery from Alcoholism
I was born in the late 1940s in a small industrial village in the East Midlands. My overriding memory as a child is Anxiety. I remember coming home from school when I was probably seven and finding my mother attended by the doctor and a neighbour.
M.L.’s OA Story – Weakness, Not Strength
I recently came to a greater understanding of that phrase used in the introduction in many meetings – ‘It is our weakness, not strength, which brings us together.’ I usually squirmed at the notion of weakness, and though I could admit to being weak at the sight of food, I didn’t like to be reminded of it.
A’s OA Story – To Walk Without Crutches
After almost five years in Overeaters Anonymous (OA), I recently traveled alone for…
Starting to Run at Age 54
It is 11am on a Sunday and I am beginning to feel slightly nervous, like every week. Am I really going to make it the whole 7 miles? Will my knees be okay, will I collapse?? I have now been running each week for one and a half years and actually it is always fine. Even though I am now 55 years old
All you can eat continental breakfast in Spain
A few years ago I was on holiday in Spain with my sister and mother, when we arrived we stayed in the cheapest hotel we could find, with breakfast included. We would stuff our faces before exploring the local beaches and shops. The breakfast was continental, with 2-day old croissants and acidic OJ, and the room it was served in smelt appalling.