I don’t know why but I’ve always loved the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’.
I know that it is meant to mean something else but I always thought that it was very cool that this girl could tell there was a pea under all those mattresses!
As a kid, when I heard that story I was impressed.
I’d always wanted some sort of superpower and to my young mind this was just that.
I had skills but I didn’t know it at the time.
I only became aware of my strengths because my mum would make a fuss of them. She was big on positive encouragement at a time when it was seen as indulgence. I thank her every day for her fabulous insight. She coped a lot of flack for the way she raised this wild adopted son, but she stuck to her guns because she believed…
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