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Four years ago, the course of my life changed in heartbeat. I flat-lined – literally. An horrific car accident left me on life support in a foreign country and 12,000 miles from home. With life threatening injuries and 17 surgeries to overcome, life as I knew it had come to screaming halt. My fight for life began in ICU. It was only when I made it of there, did the real battle begin!

For a while, it seemed as though I had lost everything – my sense of identity, purpose, direction, and independence. My brand new relationship and the reason I was on the other side of the world, was now under enormous pressure. With formidable injuries and a long recovery process in front of me, I was trapped for the first time in my life. Ill health and immigration laws precluded me from leaving the country for 18 months.

With no personal history, no status, no familiarity, and no friends or family by my side, not one person truly knew me – including my newfound love. I now embodied the polar opposite of whom I was, to him anyway…

The only thing I truly had, was the relationship I had with myself. Through those dark days of introspection and drug induced days euphoria, not least when I was in a coma, I had only myself for company. It was then that I further deepened the strength and depth of that relationship. No matter the level of love and support of others, it was only ever going to be me that could make my life happen once more. All roads led back to me – and that was a real bummer at times.

Now, four years on, I have experienced a purpose and passion for life that I believe had been in the waiting in the wings only to be freed by something that was to shatter my very existence. Today, my life is transformed. I have finally achieved the success and fulfilment I was looking for when I made that decision to jack in my job, refinance my home and go off on a solo trip around the world. It was a decision that was to shape my destiny in a way I could never have imagined and beyond anything I could ever have dreamed.

I would like to share that story with you. My vision is to make a difference and save you the inconvenience of tubes, pipes and catheters!

If you enjoy travel and adventure, love and passion, tragedy and triumph, then you’re in for a treat with my Monthly Muse’s! If along the way, you’re curious as to how and why those paths were taken, then you’re in for some wonderful insights in to how to play this game of life, and occasionally, how absolutely not to! If any of my stories are like yours, then I would love for you to share them on my travel blog! And if winning strategies and formulae are useful to you, then right here, each month, you will find an amazing abundance of them. Red Velvet Entertainment guaranteed.

I have noticed that my life shrinks or expands in proportion to my capacity to embrace change. My fear of an inadequate life has always been greater than any fear of change. To have courage the existence of fear is presupposed and yet fear is about something that hasn’t happened yet. That’s living in the future. I have learned that fear is but an illusion and that courage comes from by being present to the only thing we truly have – this very moment in time.

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For a life gifted twice
And in honour of bubbles, botox and red velvet gloves

Jacqui Lane

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