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Steven's Story

The personal ones. Breaking my neck at eighteen, the years I got it wrong, hitting the bottom at forty, and what I found there.

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SITS 177 · 10 September 2026 · 18:29What Will I Miss? My Story for World Suicide Prevention DayWhat would you miss? This episode is about suicide, my granddad's and my own, and the one question that kept me here. If you need help right now, the numbers are just below.Listen to this episode SITS 174 · Working with Emotions · 11 August 2026 · 19:03If This Were My Last PodcastIf this were my last podcast, what would I want to leave you with? Let everything happen to you. No feeling is final.Listen to this episode SITS 157 · 17 January 2026 · 16:56Apricity and the Calm After the StormHow do you stay calm through the strongest winds Cornwall has ever had? You watch the news enough to know what is happening, and then you stop watching it.Listen to this episode SITS 139 · Working with Emotions · 7 February 2025 · 13:47Emotional Connections: The Moments That Shape UsWhat do you actually remember of your life? Not the years. Just the moments.Listen to this episode SITS 136 · 31 December 2024 · 9:13Moments That Matter: A Heartfelt New Year MessageDo you actually rely on anybody? I cannot put a jumper on without help, and it took me most of my life to stop saying no thanks. You rely on people too.Listen to this episode SITS 129 · 13 October 2024 · 16:04Moments That Matter: A Journey Through CornwallWhat do you take away from 500 miles in a wheelchair? A hundred and forty parishes, three hundred places, thousands of conversations, and one question that stopped me years ago.Listen to this episode SITS 128 · 15 September 2024 · 15:43A Special Update: 500 Miles and a Heavy Heart – Philosophical Musings from the RoadWhat do you do when a friend dies while you are out raising money in their honour? I was on the road doing 500 miles for the air ambulance when I got the message.Listen to this episode SITS 107 · 12 December 2023 · 8:423 Life Lessons (From hospital bed not edited)What do you actually hold on to from a hospital bed? My paralysis taught me the alternative is not just irrelevant, it does not exist. There is only the ground under your feet.Listen to this episode SITS 104 · 10 November 2023 · 4:49Update 2: I’m on my way back…Am I back yet? Nearly. I am sleeping again and I am not falling asleep every two hours.Listen to this episode SITS 103 · 6 October 2023 · 2:49Quick Update – and Thank YouWhere has the podcast been for the last few weeks? Short answer: I needed to stop, so I stopped.Listen to this episode SITS 100 · 1 September 2023 · 20:37100 Episodes, 32 Years On: The Most Important Message I HaveHave you ever thought about taking your life, or lost somebody who did? This is the most important thing I have to say, and it took me a hundred episodes to say it.Listen to this episode SITS 77 · Self-Acceptance & Self-Love · 14 December 2022 · 22:08Becoming Whole - My Favourite Subject and Turning 50What does it actually mean to become whole? I turned fifty this week, which is something I never expected to see.Listen to this episode SITS 72 · 2 September 2022 · 14:47Enough Is Enough - I need your helpWhat are you actually waiting for? I am 49, I have everything I need to do the work, and I am watching Netflix instead. So I am asking you to hold me to it.Listen to this episode SITS 59 · 19 May 2021 · 10:56Be Your 7 Year Old Self – Day 2 #MayorOfTruroWhat would today look like if you met it the way your seven year old self would?Listen to this episode SITS 49 · 10 January 2021 · 22:45Reasons it’s Awesome to be Paralysed (DON’T LISTEN IF EASILY OFFENDED)Can there be anything good about being paralysed? Seven things, and I am only half joking about most of them.Listen to this episode SITS 37 · 2 September 2020 · 13:24Today Is No Ordinary Day – 29 Years onWhat if today is the last day you can walk, or go to the toilet on your own? Mine was Sunday, 1 September 1991.Listen to this episode SITS 16 · 10 February 2020 · 14:34Being vulnerable and I CANNOT BELIEVE I have been HIDING THIS!What have you been hiding without knowing you were hiding it? I found mine this week and I could not believe it.Listen to this episode

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