Foreword

By Dawn Bringloe

Have you ever met someone you instantly felt a connection with? You too will feel this connection, as this inspiring young author’s story unfolds before you. Richard’s quiet, and sometimes desperate search for a cure to his personal nightmare world of panic attacks has touched my heart. Here was this young man sitting in front of me, with what seemed like on the outside, everything going for him, and yet the picture he was painting of himself was a million miles from the reality of what I could see before me.

He described all the negative things about himself – how he saw himself as weak willed and never amounting to anything, and yet, all I could see was a young man with such a gentleness about him, an inner strength, to never give in to what was obviously a very debilitating illness for him. On top of this, he had a real passion to write and help other people, which makes me wonder how amazing it is we can’t see the good qualities about ourselves and always focus on the bad bits. How easily other people’s opinions of us quickly become our reality.

Richard’s story of trying to understand himself and his illness touched me deep inside. I could relate to the pains and torments he had been through, having suffered with major panic attacks throughout the earlier years of my life, the words he wrote made sense of what I’d gone through, and I know will do so for many more like yourselves.

Allow his unfolding story to guide you as he tries to search for answers to clear the problems from his life. Help you recognise where your own problems could be coming from, as the answer is not always as obvious as we first think.

       Just because you’ve been knocked down, you don’t have to stay down, and from today anything is possible to turn around. Be this a new understanding of yourself, as you learn how to turn negative situations into the strongest asset you possess: as he reveals all, whilst pursuing his dream to write and help others see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Richard turned his adversity into his passion to help others, and ultimately become a writer. Let him help you turn your life around too.

Have patience with yourself, faith in what you are about to read, and the power you too have deep inside.

You too can have total control of your life