Erotic chocolate helps beat the recession blues

As the Confectioner Cadbury announces a 30% rise in annual profits to £559 million, it seems the world is eating chocolate as an antidote to the recession. A well know `comfort food’, chocolate is not only being used as recession relief – but as a form of solace for those going through divorce.

In an ongoing survey by the Starting Over Show, over 28% of participants cited `chocolate’ as providing “solace and rescue“ when going through break up and divorce. In fact, two of the 37 exhibitors at the event, known as the UK’s ‘first divorce fair’, are indeed chocolatiers.

“Financial pressures are increasing the number of troubled relationships seeking help” reports Suzy Miller, producer of the Starting Over Show. “Some of our exhibitors – including Relate – have reported a significant rise in couples approaching them for counseling.”

Climax Chocolates are hand made and some are in the shape of scenes from the Kama Sutra. The outrageously erotic chocolates are as heady to look at as they are to eat, with a minimum cocoa content of 41% in the milk chocolate (which is double the cocoa content found in some major brands), and using Venezuelan chocolate from sustainable sources.

Chocolate has been purported as an aphrodisiac for centuries. Apparently the Aztecs first considered chocolate as an aphrodisiac and all foods made with chocolate were forbidden to women. However, it is also suggested that the Aztecs and Mayans celebrated the cocoa harvest with wild festivals. The website chocolateexpert.co.uk also tells us that chocolate brings instant comfort and acts as a mild anti-depressant by increasing our serotonin and endorphin levels.

Also exhibiting at the SOS event are Xocai `healthy’ chocolate, recently launched in the UK providing chocolate products made from raw cocoa, which contains natural health giving benefits. Not only are the products marketed as being good for you, but Xocai are keen to encourage visitors to the Starting Over Show to sign up as agents for the product.

Cadbury chief executive Todd Stitzer says that consumers are tucking into more chocolate at home as the recession takes hold. But visitors to SOS could be using Xocai chocolate to provide a healthy extra income in difficult times, while Climax chocolates could add spice and fun to those relationships that are suffering from the pressures of the financial meltdown.

Contacts:
Suzy Miller suzy(at)startingovershow.co.uk
Featured in Sept 08 issue of Eve Magazine
Suzi Christie/Blueberry PR suzi(at)blueberry-pr.co.uk 01435 830031

High quality photos/images and case studies are available on request

Sources and links:
Starting Over Show

The Starting Over Show is the first UK event designed to help people bounce back from relationship break ups and life crises. The event is designed to give people going through relationship breakdowns access to a wide range of resources and specialists who can help them break up without breaking down. The SOS event takes place at the Barcelo Old Ship Hotel in Brighton on 15 March 2009 and will include a workshop with Divorce Doctor Francine Kaye and a talk by Daily Mail columnist Anna Pasternak (Daisy Dooley Does Divorce). SOS will be a safe haven in which you can take professional advice to build the confidence and skills you need to go it alone. The philosophy behind the show is useful information, honest communication, personal transformation.
www.startingovershow.co.uk

Suzy Miller has also created an independent, non-commercial online resource hub – the SOS Village http://www.sos-village.org which allows people to access a range of resources and to share personal stories to help them through a break up.

Www.chocolateexpert.co.uk

Climax Chocolates
Marie-Louise Schlemm
issi-s@gmx.de
07960 753439

Xocai Chocolate
MXI Corporation
Geoff Cox
mychocshop@hotmail.com
www.mxi.myvoffice.com/chocolatetreasureuk

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Suzy Miller and exhibitors at the event are available for interviews.  Exhibitors can be contacted via the Starting Over Show website, and Suzy can be contacted via email at suzy@startingovershow.co.uk, or by phone on 07525 059 634.

filming arrangements and photocall timings

In order to respect the privacy of our visitors, no cameras or video equipment will be allowed into the event.  However, pre-arranged filming and photo-calls can be booked via Suzi Christie/Blueberry PR suzi@blueberry-pr.co.uk   01435 830031

case studies

We are in contact with a number of people who are willing to talk to the Press about their personal experiences of break up and divorce.

Nicola Rawson: sold the wedding and engagement ring to pay for the divorce.

Suzy Miller: kept the faith and now has a healthy relationship with her ex and his new partner (see Prima Magazine)

F: Successfully managed her post divorce relationship, but accepted a very poor settlement and has been advised that she will not be able to change it.

Sean: fighting for access to his little girl – denied seeing her over Xmas and feels ‘bullied’ by the courts

For other case studies, see articles written here:

Contacts:

Suzy Miller (Featured in Sept 08 issue of Eve Magazine & July 09 Prima Magazine)

07525 059 634 suzy@startingovershow.co.uk

Suzi Christie

Blueberry PR suzi@blueberry-pr.co.uk 01435 830031

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recent history of ‘divorce fairs’

The very first ever divorce or `break up’ fair was held in Austria. Around 500 people and 20 exhibitors attended the first ever divorce fair at the Vienna Marriott Hotel in October 2007. The fair gave advice on how to organise a post-married life, and to help couples to untie the knot as painlessly as possible.

The two-day fair was held under the motto “New beginning”. The event allowed would-be divorcees to consult lawyers about their rights and seek advice. The divorce rate in Austria hit an all time high of 50% in 2006, with 66% of marriages in Vienna ending in divorce.

The Saturday was reserved for men, and Sunday for women, so couples could avoid awkward encounters and retain a degree of anonymity. There was also a series of lectures on subjects like how divorce affects children and coping as a single parent.

In 2008 there were divorce fairs in Holland and Switzerland, as high divorce rates fuel the need for such events.

The first divorce….

A perfect replica of the letter sent by British nobles to Pope Clement VII in 1530 demanding a divorce for Henry VIII was hailed by historians as crucial to understanding why England is a Protestant country when it was unveiled in Rome on 23 June 2009.

“To understand England we need to have this document in mind,” said the historian David Starkey, who was present at the launch in Rome.

When the pope denied Henry VIII the divorce he craved from Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, the English king broke with Rome.

For a brief history of divorce see this Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/19/divorce-law-history

Our ethos

The culture of the Starting Over Show is one of providing information and inspiration to the visitors, and encouraging them to consider collaborative law and financial mediation as a way forward. Consequently, the need to ’segregate’ the sexes as in the Austrian event does not occur at SOS, as that would go against the inclusive ethos of the show which hopes also to attract visitors going through civil partnership breakups which are happening now in Brighton and elsewhere in the UK.

Unlike the event held in Austria, the Starting Over Show focuses on moving forwards through the process rather than getting stuck in the traditional wrangling over money and property. Breaking up without breaking down is a theme of the SOS events, which is why the shows will not be including some of the exhibitors present at the divorce fair in Austria. No private detectives and DNA testers will be exhibiting at SOS!

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ESTELLE WILLIAMS, LUCY WINTLE AND PAUL SANDFORD – ORDAINED INTERFAITH MINISTERS

Estelle Williams, Lucy Wintle and Paul Sandford  – trained and ordained Interfaith ministers. Non denominational ministers here to serve people of all faiths, or none.

Following our ordination our friendship grew as did our commitment to serving all people regardless of their religion beliefs or sexual orientation; and this led to the creation of what we have to offer via “Rhythm- of- life”.

Experienced in world traditions, ritual and prayer, we create ceremonies and provide services that will uplift and inspire. Our Interfaith ceremonies and services are personalised, warm, creative and memorable; and will reflect your own values, beliefs and intentions.
We embrace all faiths and spiritual practice, and are open to both religious and non religious ceremonies.

We have an extensive knowledge of readings, poems, quotes, vows, music and ritual; and a breadth of experience in creating and facilitating ceremonies. 
Whether spiritual, religious or secular we can provide guidance and a helping hand to create a ceremony that will reflect who you are and what you want to say.

Furthermore, we consider our role to be an enormous privilege. We really enjoy making the experience all it can be for all concerned.

http://www.rhythm-of-life.org.uk

breaking up gifts for Valentine’s Day – or `how to let go’

The customer in the London photography shop was oblivious to my ‘virtual’ presence, as I spied upon the most unexpected and moving conversation that was taking place before me.   Valentine’s day is only a couple of days away and love is in the air.

I was watching the whole scene, unobserved, via Skype, viewing the action via the camera discretely embedded in the screen of the large Mac computer in the corner of the shop.  A screen that  displayed images of happy family occasions and weddings throughout the day.

I watched as the shopkeeper, who had just paused our Skype conversation to serve this new customer, was handing back a large amount of photographs of the gentleman and someone he presumed to be the gentlemen’s girlfriend.

“A present for Valentine’s Day?” Inquired the shopkeeper, handing over some albums which were also being purchased.

“No”, replied the customer glumly.  “A breaking up present.”

Shocked, the shopkeeper inquired further.  “You’re giving your girlfriend albums of photos of you both as a breaking up present?”

“Yes, she said she didn’t have any photos of us as I had them all.”

Resuming our conversation via Skype after the customer had left, the shop in full view from my viewpoint but myself invisible with only voice contact activated, we marvelled over what we had just witnessed.

“That young man has just spent over £100 on photographs and albums for someone he is breaking up from, but I’ve had customers refusing to part with £5 for a frame for their Valentine.  Not only that,” continued my astonished friend, and an exhibitor at my forthcoming Starting Over Show event, “he’s now going to spend hours putting all those photos into the albums.”

The customer had not just left with his purchases – he had been handed a flyer for the Starting Over Show which he had observed with interest.  “It’s not about breaking up, it’s more about the starting over part” had been a good explanation given to him of the purpose of the event.

An exhibitor taking the opportunity to plug the show was one thing, but I was moved by such a positive ‘letting go’ process which was being carried out by this couple.  A painful process – much easier just to hate and ignore and run away from the agony of it all.

At the SOS event in March we are hoping to raise some awareness of the value of ‘letting go’ which can be done via a ‘letting go ceremony’.  These ceremony’s are a powerful psychological trigger for helping to move forwards from a relationship or situation and can be very beautiful and moving.  I myself had enacted a kind of `do it yourself’ version a few months before, having found a posting on my resource site at www.sos-village.org by relationship coach and author Julia Armstrong, another exhibitor at SOS.

Having had such success with even the version I and my ex-boyfriend had made use of, I would still not hesitate to pay good money, and be taken through the process by a skilled professional if I need to do one again.  In a strange way, it was like getting the hang of skiing following a few basic instructions, and now wanting to get some proper lessons before venturing back onto the slopes.  A bit of success feeds the desire to do something really well, particularly in emotional matters, as it is confidence and self esteem that are often key to being able to maintain a healthy relationship post break up.

Why should breaking up deserve as much attention to being done well as getting married?  Because in my experience, the fall out from a bad break up causes much more misery than a badly  planned wedding.

For those wishing to combine a spiritual element to the break up process, irrespective of their faith or belief, there will be non-denominational pastors at the SOS event in March.  Estelle Williams of Rainbow Heart Services, explains the purpose of the ceremonies they perform: “Such a ceremony can be long or short; religious or not.  It could involve just the separating couple or also children, friends or family – whatever combination is right for them.  Equally the ceremony could be held wherever they want it.  Such a ceremony is all about freedom, choice and respect for the individuals.  Such a ceremony is about providing the space for all to feel honoured and uplifted.”

A typical part of such a ceremony would involve the couple saying the following words:
“In the future I have every intention of:
Honouring and treasuring our shared memories
Sharing in loving parenting
Being fair, trustworthy and kind
Never belittling you
And honouring and respecting your new life
I recognise the new growth and understanding that has occurred in each of us; and I ask that you forgive me for past mistakes and my anger borne of sadness for the loss of shared dreams.
I am committed to letting go with love.”

Imagine a couple saying that to each other in a courtroom after two divorce lawyers have been battling it out?  More likely perhaps, that enlightened couples who have used mediation to reach their financial settlement would be more open to working towards a long term sustainable relationship with an ex partner.

Rainbow Heart Services have been working with the gay community where an appreciation of the importance of ritual may be stronger due to having to wait so long to have Civil Partnerships recognised by the State.  Hopefully, more heterosexuals will begin to seek out ways of breaking up without breaking down, especially where children are involved.

It was raining outside as the young gentleman left the shop carrying his photos of a lost relationship, the final gift of separation to be prepared by Valentine’s Day.  Trying to say something to lighten the mood, as he looked at the sky opening up outside and a torrent of water poured down, I heard the shopkeeper say: “Well, at least it isn’t raining!”

“The only place it’s raining”, came the subdued reply, “is in my heart”.  I watched him leave the shop, photos and albums wrapped in plastic bags against the downpour, and the shop was empty save for the shopkeeper surrounded by photographic images on the shop walls of laughing children, smiling brides, and loving couples enjoying a holiday in the sun.

Even Swans sometimes get Divorced

Petra isn’t known for her philandering. A number of male swans attempted to make her acquaintance in the two years preceding December 2007 – but Petra rejected them all, for she was in love with a plastic swan-shaped pedal boat.

The romantic escapades of the black swan hit headlines around the world last year when she began following a white pedal boat around on the lake where she lived. When winter arrived, she refused to be separated from the boat when workers removed it from the lake for the winter. The local zoo found a place for the swan and the boat to spend the winter together.

But despite Petra’s love and devotion to her unusual choice of mate, and our own human desire to believe in life long commitments between creatures other than ourselves, it has been discovered that five percent of whooping swan pairs end in divorce, and as many as 1 in 10 pairs of mute swans split up.

Unlike with humans, the swans’ divorce process seems not to dissolve into years or rancour, unhappiness and debt.

One of the objectives of the Starting Over Show (the UK’s first divorce fair) taking place on 15 March in Brighton this year, is to provide the information and the inspirational support human beings need when going through relationship break ups. “We can’t help swans who are getting divorced” admits Suzy Miller, the shows producer, “but we can try to reverse the stigma over break up and help people feel supported through the process. If even swans can sometimes need to change partners, we shouldn’t make humans feel like failures because they haven’t made their relationship work for an entire lifetime.”

Swans, Wikipedia tells us, usually mate for life. Divorce, though, the entry goes on, “does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure.” Which perhaps explains why Petra, the famous black swan from the German town of Münster, finally ditched her boyfriend for a new beau. It is, after all, difficult to nest with a giant, plastic pedal boat.

Not many nests are wrecked by the rigours of the credit crunch, so what does drive this icon of romance, the swan that `mates for life’, to divorce? Biologists are scrutinizing bird families, from courtship to breakup, with new interest these days. For years, scientists assumed that birds which nested together pretty much stayed together without slipping off to visit alluring neighbours. In the 1980s, however, DNA analyses of nestlings revealed that the male who helps tend them is not always their genetic father. “A lot of birds are having a bit on the side,” says Jeffrey M. Black of the University of Cambridge in England, “so many theories about evolution and social behaviour have been turned on their heads.”

From this upset, studies of feathered divorce have begun to emerge. “I think you’re going to see a lot more,” Black predicts. Many researchers use the term “divorce” for paired birds that separate or fail to reunite during the next breeding opportunity. When the word first showed up in ornithology papers, “there was an uproar,” Black remembers. However, ornithologists didn’t seem to take to such proposed alternatives as “severance,” “breakage,” “dissolution,” or that masterpiece of neutrality, “nonretainment.”

Black has collected estimates of divorce rates in more than 100 species of birds. The percentage of pair bonds that break ranges from nearly 100, in house martins and greater flamingos, to roughly zero in Australian ravens and the waved albatross. Humans, who divorce in 40 to 50 percent of new marriages in the United States and are predicted to reach such levels in the UK, fall into the same range as the masked booby. Divorce rates differ not only among species but among different populations of the same species, much as humans in Hove untie the knot at a higher rate than those in Cheshire.

The frequency of deserting females does not surprise Andre Dhondt of the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, who compares relative investments in reproduction. “There is more at stake for females than males,” he points out. To find out who benefits from a divorce, Dhondt has tallied the number of subsequent offspring of divorced male and female blue tits. “Typically, females improve their breeding success, but the males don’t,” he reports.

The singles scene can be tough for some species. Among red-billed gulls in a region with few males, 32 percent of females that lose their mates through death or divorce never breed again. Long-time gull watcher James A. Mills of Corning, N.Y., who reports that number, notes that some of these loners lived 10 more years.

“Luckily, humans don’t have to rely on being able to reproduce to find a happy partnership., comments Suzy Miller. But we do need a great deal of practical and emotional support to help us start over successfully when things don’t work out.” In humans, second or third-time around UK divorces have doubled since 1981, say official statistics. According to the Office for National Statistics, one in five of all couples divorcing in 2005 already had one marriage break-up behind them.

But there is hope yet – apparently, Bewick’s swans never separate. Well… almost never.

To find out more and secure tickets for the Starting Over Show go to: http://www.startingovershow.co.uk, or visit the SOS Village resource site at www.sos-village.org.

Sources:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,523762,00.html
When Birds Divorce  Who splits, who benefits, and who gets the nest By Susan Milius
http://www.netpets.org/birds/newsroom/divorce.html

Jeffrey M. Black, Cambridge University, Department of Zoology, Downing St. Cambridge CB2 3EJ England
Andre A. Dhondt, Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

Award winning storytellers help divorcees

Storytelling is a healing art and stories can be heard all around the UK during this National Storytelling Week, which was conceived in the year 2000 AD to increase public awareness of the art, practice and value of oral storytelling.

National Storytelling Week It is held during the first week of February every year, and at least one of those storytellers, Madeleine Grove of East Sussex, is going to be also performing at a unique and unusual event in Brighton on 15 March 2009 – the first UK divorce fair.

“Stories speak to us in a direct way” explains Madeleine, an award winning storyteller and registered homeopath practicing in Kent, Sussex, and London. “We absorb truths, teaching, and healing effortlessly when we hear a story.  That’s why the great teachers have always used them. “
The Society for Storytelling was set up to promote the oldest art form in the world. “Storytelling is at the root of every art form: we think in story form, make sense of our world in narrative – from something we’ve seen – from last night’s television, to what family and folk stories we remember and retell.”

The Starting Over Show, the first event of it’s kind in the UK, will be visited on March15th by people going through life changing experiences including divorce and relationship breakup. The show’s creator and producer Suzy Miller is a keen fan of storytelling and has herself attended some courses at Emerson College in East Sussex.

Suzy agrees with the view of the Society for Storytelling that: “Performance storytelling can be a powerful experience, both entertaining and moving. Story is also the traditional medium of communication from generation to generation, a tool for education and therapy.”

Madeleine Grove’s work as a homeopath has enforced her belief of the healing effect of stories on adults as well as children:
“In my clinics I find stories so valuable. A patient who may be struggling with health issues can often see the images in a simple tale that can illuminate their own life. For instance? well – there is a Scottish story of a fisherman who found a mermaid and took her home – took off her tale and hid it – years later the mermaid/wife finds her wondrous tale again – puts it on and dives back into her element, back into the sea – never to return to the heart-broken man… A little story like that can open up the imagination and give someone a safe way to look at what ‘parts of themselves’ were left out of a marriage or a relationship and how that may have contributed to the break-down of the partnership.”

Throughout the S.O.S. day at the Old Ship Hotel not far from Brighton pier, Madeleine will be joined by at least one other storyteller relating tales to illuminate each of the Stages of Relation Breakdown Recovery – Starting Over Stories.

In 2007 the seventh year of National Storytelling Week there were 1,040 events held throughout the country.

To find out more and secure tickets for the Starting Over Show go to: http://www.startingovershow.co.uk, or visit the SOS Village resource site at
www.sos-village.org.

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Contacts:
Suzy Miller 07825 222 404 suzy@startingovershow.co.uk
Featured in Sept 08 issue of Eve Magazine
Suzi Christie/Blueberry PR suzi@blueberry-pr.co.uk 01435 830031

High quality photos/images and case studies are available on request

Sources and links:

Suzy Miller (featured in September 08 Eve Magazine) is the creator of the Starting Over Show, an event designed to give people going through relationship breakdowns access to a wide range of resources and specialists who can help them break up without breaking down. The SOS event takes place at the Barcelo Old Ship Hotel in Brighton on 15 March 2009 and will include a workshop with Divorce Doctor Francine Kaye and a talk by Daily Mail columnist Anna Pasternak (Daisy Dooley Does Divorce)

Starting Over Show

The Starting Over Show will be held in Brighton at the Barcelo Old Ship Hotel on Sunday 15 March 2009. It is the first UK event designed to help people bounce back from relationship break ups and life crises. It will be a safe haven in which soon-to-be singletons can take professional advice to build the confidence and skills they need to go it alone. The philosophy behind the show is useful information, honest communication, personal transformation.
www.startingovershow.co.uk

Suzy Miller has also created an independent, non-commercial online resource hub – the SOS Village http://www.sos-village.org which allows people to access a range of resources and to share personal stories to help them through a break up.

Madeleine Grove is an award-winning storyteller – winner of The Golden Argus Angel Award for artistic excellence at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2007 for ‘Psyche and Eros’ – a storytelling and musical extravaganza*.

For further information about Madeleine’s work and up-coming workshops in England and Crete visit www.madeleinegrove.com

Society for Storytelling http://sfs.org.uk

The Society for Storytelling was set up to promote the oldest art form in the world. Storytelling is at the root of every art form: we think in story form, make sense of our world in narrative – from something we’ve seen – from last night’s television, to what family and folk stories we remember and retell.  Performance storytelling can be a powerful experience, both entertaining and moving. Story is also the traditional medium of communication from generation to generation, a tool for education and therapy. The deaf community carry their stories in the palm of their hands and write them in the air. For visually impaired people, storytelling is a natural accessible medium that stimulates all the senses of the imagination.

The Society for Storytelling seeks through National Storytelling Week to give all elements of the tradition their voice.

National Storytelling Week was conceived in the year 2000 AD to increase public awareness of the art, practice and value of oral storytelling. It is held during the first week of February every year.

This week was chosen because it is not too close to Christmas and coincides with Candlemas, which falls on the 2nd of February. Part of the rituals for this old church festival includes a blessing on the throat, a prime tool in the store of nearly all storytellers of every belief and culture.

The first publicity for National Storytelling Week is issued now to national and local media in the late spring. This allows for teachers and others who perhaps need a greater length of time to prepare their ideas for events. Other Press Releases follow in late summer and early winter as the build up grows. Indeed throughout the months of December and January each year the Society for Storytelling is deluged with post and emails of interest and participation in this rapidly growing national event. In 2007 the seventh year of National Storytelling Week there were 1,040 events held throughout the country.

Don’t let divorce mess up your career

Nicola’s starting over story

I started divorce proceedings in January 06 after my husband came home one weekend in December and announced – quote – ‘I want children but not with you. There’s no-one else’. He disappeared back to Plymouth the next day.  I believed him for a few weeks, the epitaph of 12 years together  – me being an unsuitable mother for his future children – hanging around my neck like a millstone. That is, until First Direct bank informed me he’d withdrawn cash in Birmingham when he said he’d been in Plymouth. Ironically, they sent me the apology letter, so I guess they were responsible for me initiating my divorce.

I was a year into my degree at that time.

My husband had arranged for me to complete a placement in Plymouth, where he was based. One emergency NHS loan later and I went to Devon to complete my placement, much to his chagrin.

Things turned acrimonious quickly. Although my husband promised to support me through the degree, he soon started to cut money off.

My husband offered me a cash sum in May 06, which was less than 50% of the equity in our house.  He was furious when I didn’t accept his offer. He then refused to sign my NHS bursary form – his signature was required as we were still married. In the end, his CO intervened and took it to the post office himself.

We had a house in Hampshire which we rented out and the proceeds paid for my rented accommodation in Manchester.  He’d apparently forged my signature on a letter to our tenants, relinquishing my role as landlady and arranging for the rental income to be paid directly to him.

Faced with the prospect of homelessness, I felt I couldn’t continue with my degree on several occasions. My wonderful family and friends and supportive University staff helped me through the dark times. I was on track to get a first and whilst it was so near, the stress of his behaviour took its toll. My willingness to continue turned on a sixpence.  However, At the AR hearing, the judge ordered my husband to pay the money back and to continue to pay my rent until after I was expected to graduate.

I graduated in July 2008 with First Class Honours. I was also awarded the prize for best student in the year which meant the world to me. It was the happiest day of my life. I really didn’t think I’d make it.

“If my story can help others then please feel free to use it.
I really believe my now-ex was jealous of my achievements and took every opportunity to thwart my chances of success. I’m an ordinary person and if I can do it, I’m sure others can! I know I would have had more faith if I’d seen or heard that someone else in my situation had made it.
Kind regards,
Nicola.”

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