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Learning to heal by learning to feel, by Niall Breslin

Meditative Story

CHAPTER

The Gravitational Pull of the Midlands

I feel a gravitational pull to where I'm from in the midlands. In spite of everything I went through, just a few kilometers up the road, the stress, the abuse, the depression, I always come back to these calm and serene bodies of water. These homes to rainbow trout and swans and mythical stories like the children of Lure and Gulliver's travels. When I get rinsed by the world, which happens quite a lot, I feel particularly lost. This is where I return. That anxiety I experienced as a teenager goes on for years and it gets worse. Still I pretend I'm okay. I walk out onto this light TV show and I just

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