’10 Pairs of Unhelpful Sunglasses’
👉 Your view is obscured.
One step, ANY steps forward are fraught with the potential for something to go wrong.
🤔 But what can you expect when you’re wearing 10 pairs of ‘unhelpful’ sunglasses?
And worse still, for 40 years, you didn’t even know they existed.
👉 This is the challenge, Ryan Harland , goes through every minute, of every day, 365 days of the year.
Years of childhood trauma and physical abuse from S.D, ‘Sperm Donor’, a term he calls his dad, because even after 40 years, and his dad’s death, the mental and emotional impact left behind is so deeply ingrained, this now the way in Ryan can ‘acknowledge’ what has happened and take steps forward with the lasting impact of what one man caused.
👉 Ryan has lived with shame, fear, and anger for much if his life.
Shame because, aged 19, he should have been able to stop S.D. from physically abusing him.
Fear because the unpredictability of S.D.’s actions meant he always had to ‘hide’.
Anger because where were all the moments you’re ‘meant’ to have with a Dad.
👉 This prolonged trauma and physical abuse, has left Ryan wearing, 10 pairs of very ‘unhelpful’ sunglasses every single day.
👉 His diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is just one of the ‘labels’ Ryan has which is the source of his ‘unhelpful sunglasses’, he admits himself, he is uncertain whether this was there from birth or because of the trauma he has experienced at the hands of S.D.
🧡 I have had the great fortune to talk with Ryan, more than once, and to read his book ‘Riding the Storm’ – here is a man absolutely passionate about sharing a message of hope, that in spite of everything someone, who should be protecting you, takes away from you, you can move forward from the pain, to create purpose and a passion for life and living again, and to truly flourish.
Of course, Ryan’s struggles continue, the sunglasses are still there, whatever the weather, but the passion within him to let others know they are not alone in their pain, is an inspiration in and of itself.
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