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PLAY WITH FIRE You'll Get Burnt - My Autobiography

PLAY WITH FIRE You'll Get Burnt - My Autobiography

Caroline Elwood-Stokes
Caroline Elwood-Stokes
Language: English - 172 pages
Paperback
€15.22
€15.22

Synopsis

Truth is always bitter because it reflects deep insecurities that most people suppress, hide and run from. When faced with such a truth, they feel ashamed, exposed, and vulnerable which leads to them lashing out at the messengers of such truth. In effect, it’s not the person telling the truth they have a problem with. The actual problem is their inability to face the truth. So they ignore the truth and instead focus on ‘shooting the messenger’. It’s a defense mechanism that helps them deflect from the truth because it’s too painful. Society doesn’t encourage Truth, because its principles of morality judge and criticize, making people feel ashamed of their truths. So people are forced to live a lie, running and hiding from their truth so they can ‘fit in’ with the crowds. So when people are suddenly faced with their truth, their first instinct is to deny, blame and resent the messengers of truth. People hate being told the truth, and they hate being questioned about it even more. I'm not prepared to sit back and listen to the lies and watch the consequences ruin my family. Now, it's time to express the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me god!

About Caroline Elwood-Stokes

Caroline Elwood-Stokes
Caroline Elwood-Stokes, former player of Sheffield Wednesday Ladies. Kilnhurst, Sheffield United Ladies and published author is the founder of FOOTBALLS AWARENESS of MENTAL HEALTH (FAMH), an Organisation providing support and awareness to players, coaches and managers suffering with – or have suffered with – mental health issues. ​ “As an ex footballer myself, I lost my career abruptly 23 years ago,” said Elwood-Stokes. “I was not able to face football, I couldn’t even bear to hear the word and I went into a massive spiral of depression, so severely that I was self harming, taking over doses and planning my own death. Basically, if I couldn’t play football I wanted to be dead. After years of taking anti depressants and having many sessions of bereavement counselling to get over the loss of my career, I have finally returned to the game.”

Product specifications

BindingPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publishing dateThursday, 20 October 2022
Edition1
Pagecount172
Interior colorBlack/white
Size148 x 210 mm
AuthorCaroline Elwood-Stokes
CategorySports and hobbies > Biographies en memoires