“OVERCOMING MY FEAR OF LIFE SET ME FREE!”

GAZING AT MY certificate of qualification from the Institute of Counselling, I felt so proud. After 30 years of anxiety, panic attacks, stress and fear, and eight years of adventure, I was now a qualified life coach. I don’t regret a single moment of the horrific years I endured because they are the reason I can now tell other people who struggle with their mental health that it doesn’t have to be a life sentence.

I can pinpoint when things went wrong. I scalded myself when I was 18 months old after wandering into