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Dusting Off Your Dreams

Dusting Off Your Dreams

Rediscovering and pursuing your childhood ambitions

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Ruth Cooper-Dickson
Jul 20, 2024
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My Mental Wealth™️ workshops for the second half of 2024 are set. These 45-minute sessions will be available to everyone, and each workshop will come with special paid subscriber perks. Scroll down to the bottom to see the dates from September through to December.

What was your dream as a child? What did you want to be doing, or who did you want to be? I bet you believed you could be anything you wanted. Then what happened? You grow up, life happens, and automatically, you’re pulled into the world of grown-ups where dreams are put away in favour of paying the bills and meeting everyone else's expectations. I wanted to become a world-class tennis player, a dancer, or an actor on TV – just some of my childhood hopes. Being a neurodivergent child meant my dreams changed on the regular, along with my hobbies. We can hold onto that hope of a dream and carefully shelve it along with other things we will do when we have more money or turn a certain age, whatever the life milestone is. The dre…

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