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Julia Ross

“I remember tiny pin-points of calm when I looked into his eyes. There are moments of unendurable love amid all the blackness. My mother said I was exhausted. The health visitor said I had depression. Apparently I was crying all the time. He screamed and I cried. I knew even then that I was never meant to be a mother.”

Extract from ‘Lessons in Perspective’– included in the showcase

“My mentor was well chosen by TLC and proved invaluable in helping me to see, very early on in the process, that the structure I was trying to use was actually handicapping me. Once had accepted her advice and freed myself from that structure, there was no stopping me.”