Richard's Page...
Greetings & Welcome
I'm Richard
Never give up!
There is always a way...
My Story in a Nutshell
In The Beginning...
I do not start out very well in this life folks.
My family of orgin has some serious challenges and while there are no "bad" people involved, my mum and dad are nevertheless very damaged people.
My mum struggles with chronic anxiety and fear, while my dad suffers terrible early life mental and emotional damage due to the the gross physical violence and rejection that destroys his childhood.
They do their best, but they do not cope with their internal demons which manifest in hugely destructive ways that are not comprehensible by the mind of a child.
The Fallout...
I internalise the toxic fallout from numerous traumatic events until I have a life-altering mental and emotional breakdown as a 5 year old.
I suffer a catastrophic loss of self esteem and descend into a black pit of chronic depression which causes my personality to stop developing normally.
I get worse over time until I end up as a socially dysfunctional loner who has no authentic relationships, who is bound up in destructive addictions, and who fails at everything in life that matters.
The Journey...
However, I never lose the desire to regain my right mind and so, eventually, I bite the bullet and commit 100% to becoming OK again or perishing in the process of trying.
While I do not wish to perish, it comes very close to that and if not for a small miracle I would be well and truely in the ground by now.
The Result...
Nevertheless, the process of walking the walk out of the mess of my previous life and putting my mental and emotional demons to rest, gives me a very fine-grained appreciation of what mental and emotional healing and personal transformation are all about.
It is give-back-time for me, and hence the work of the RiverOfLifeFoundation.
It is my desire to equip everyone I can, with the personal and material resources they need to become the healthy, happy, productive and fulfilled man or woman they are meant to be.
The resources available here take a number of different forms.
Some are created by me on the basis of my personal research and experience.
Where I am not an expert, I refer you to resources created by those who are.
I also provide as much valuable free material as I can.
Some of the reffered resources are paid programs which earn a small referral fee.
Where this is the case, full disclosure is given and all referrals are given on the basis of my personal use and careful evaluation of those resources.
