• The Other Me

    The Other Me

    ‘Hello, Panic, My Old Friend’ vii. You reach for anything you think might help when you get desperate enough, and I started to read. One book, by renowned medium James Van Praagh, resonated with me. He suggested that before you’re born your soul agrees to take on the problems it’ll face in life as a means of growth and evolution. Van Praagh said the soul never takes on more than it can bear. This became a mantra for me. The soul never takes on more than it can bear. The soul never takes on more than it can bear. The soul never takes on more than it can bear. Still,…

  • The Other Me

    The Other Me

    ‘Hello, Panic, My Old Friend’ v. I was in a constant shell-shocked state, short of breath, and felt like another earthquake was going to break me into little pieces. There were plenty of tremors, but I lived in anticipation of THE NEXT BIG ONE. What happened when that hit? What happened to me? I’d been living on an edge of constant anxiety; into what abyss did you fall when you plummeted from this this edge? I didn’t know any different, nor any better. This is what Dr Victor had programmed into me when I was younger: I was heading for a nervous breakdown; I could be institutionalised; it was worth…