Question?

Are you caught “Between a rock and a hard place” do you feel like there is no hope, no one who understands and no way forward? Help is at hand my friend, let me explain.

Explanation

It’s all about changing the above statement to “Between YOUR rock and a hard place” The word ROCK becoming something positive, something that will get you out of bed in the morning. Maybe your ROCK will be a creative project or a hobby maybe even a challenge? Anything that will draw your attention away from the lonely dark cloud and deafening silence of PTSI and mental health illnesses. Now, we can’t confess to being miracle workers but we can assure you that doing something recreationally, will encourage relaxation and promote many other health benefits. It will also bring with it positive changes, positive energy, positive moods, and probably the most important one of all, positive friendships with other sufferers and YOURSELF! You may feel undeserving of any new found freedom at this present moment, but rest assured by being with someone else who has similar experiences and similar injuries brings great relief. You will quickly realise YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

How do we help?

Following our STAR approach when you are ready let us know what you think your ‘ROCK’ may be. Is it music, poetry or some other form of artistry, it may even be something sporty or a challenge with an end goal? Whatever it is, we are here to help you achieve your starting point and continue with you on your journey out of the darkness.

 

We are fortunate enough at R2R to have a talented and gifted musician Dan Johnson. Dan has been delivering guitar lessons to recovering injured personnel at Hasler Coy in Plymouth for some time now and has created some online guitar tutorials that can be accessed after you register with R2R. We are continually working with other R2R musicians, setting up gigs and events so that our supporting bands can perform their music in public and help raise funds and awareness of the work that we do.

 

Some of our R2R projects currently being worked on:

 

• Last year a former RM took on an amazing challenge by yomping a 166.4km non stop on South Downs Way - an mentally epic challenge being repeated this year.
• Other former RM’s with their families and friends went yomping over Dartmoor!
• Plans for a future Recordings of a R2R album / Artists Songs
• A potential stage appearance at Glastonbury by some R2R musicians / Bands
• An Atlantic Crossing adventure made up of Five crew including, four former Royal Marines Commando's and a veteran of the Royal Air Force (we choose not to be too picky!).
• A founder member of R2R has recently been up in the Cairngorms challenging the skill of horse-riding with Horseback UK, another charity set up with rehabilitation in mind and we are looking closely at how we can collaborate in the future.

   

“Amazing things happen in the company of amazing people”

You Are Amazing!

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The road to recovery from any injury is often lengthy and uneasy. The simple fact you have to recover means that you have been tested in some way. There are three ways ways this occurs either physically, mentally or both. However you got here today it does not matter really. It has happened it is in the past and we certainly can’t go backwards and alter anything. You, like me are most likely feeling that you are now on a journey. Often this journey will take you up and down and sometimes it’s a bumpy road. However, the overriding fact is that we now need to maximise on the ups, minimise on the downs, accept what is done is done be flexible in your thinking and move on up!!

 

Whatever experiences you have accrued during your life so far, one thing is for certain. They have made you what you are today. So have a think about what you are today, whom you are and what you have had to go through to get here. If I could meet you and hold your hand I would say to you. “Well done, congratulations; you made it” there has been a time earlier in your life when you decided you were going to try something, you were going to attempt something testing and in many cases you will have decided to yourself I am going to give it my all. So like I say “Well done” you made it. You gave it your all.

 

Think back to when you made that decision, whenever it was weather it was a conscious decision or otherwise you will not have expected it to feel like this I imagine.

 

So it is time to make some more decisions. That’s easy. Human nature will assist you here. We are survivors; nature insists we do everything we can to survive. So don’t panic. You already have the most powerful force in the universe on your side. Nature. No matter how you are feeling.

 

I want to make this easy to understand so I am only going to pass on two things, two words and these two words will set the foundation for everything we go through from this point onwards.

 

VISION

BELIEF

 

I want you to close your eyes, relax over 5 deep breaths and clear your mind…… Clear?

 

OK. I want you to picture yourself, the most successful and developed version of yourself that you could possibly imagine. If that means you doing the most basic of tasks then so be it, but it is you. What ever you consider the best is. Doing the things you always wanted to do and most importantly you are happy, very happy.

This is your VISION. With time you will learn to apply this to many other things along the way, each becoming a small positive vision on the journey to the bigger VISION.

 

Now anyone can do this, its easy. However; for you these visions are much more poignant than the visions of the person next to you. You are going through a Recovery process. So visions are very vivid and are helping your recovery. So enjoy them, use your imagination and do not be scared to have any vision of the future that you wish.

 

BELIEF is what makes your VISION become reality. The ability to KNOW that you will succeed and you will overcome all hurdles on route to your vision no matter how small or large they appear. Remember one person’s small hurdle is another person’s big hurdle. We are all different. That’s a good job, I wouldn’t want another me hanging about too close… [nor would we.... Ed!]

 

What ever the vision that you have created, it may be you leaving the house for the first time in a long while, joining a new gym, meeting new people, starting a new job or career. It is vital that we now believe that we will get there. No matter what weather the day brings. There is a place in the back of your mind that always remembers that you have a vision and that you are on a journey towards it. You will learn to believe this like it has already happened. You will develop a belief so strong that you will soon feel the joy of it, as though it has already happened.

 

Combining your VISION of your future with the BELIEF  that you have already achieved this will enormously assist you on your road to recovery.

 

There is so much I could write here but I know you are busy creating visions so I want you to move on. However follow my Feeds and continue to absorb the knowledge that I have learnt on my own journey.

 

And on those down days! Well we just adjust our VISION. Though we always keep on BELIEVING.

Be kind to yourself just because it is a dull day does not mean we are dull.

You are amazing and “Amazing things will happen in the company if amazing people”  

Jamie Sanderson Former Royal Marine and Founder R2R