Free to Fly

What do you do when a loved one has committed corporate fraud? How do you manage when your life-partner is jailed? Free to Fly is one woman's account of how she dealt with this major life challenge. An announcement from her husband a few days before Christmas shattered every aspect of her comfortable existence and destroyed any future expectations.

The author was a middle aged woman in a middle class suburb to the east of Melbourne. Her husband had been a partner for over twenty years in an internationally recognised accounting firm. She was looking forward to commencing a Yoga teacher training course which would allow her to move into next phase of her life.

Unlike many, she turned to spiritual tools to assist her in her journey. Did she hurt? Too right, she hurt at a deep level. Did she feel anger or sadness or grief? Absolutely. She experienced all of those stages of grief described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Did she seek help from others? Yes, she did, but she also listened and acted on the advice.

She describes her apparently happy life and exposes some of the pain beneath the façade. She writes about her feelings which in her married life she felt unable to express. She writes about the major humps and the tools she used to help her over the humps.

Why did she write this? She wrote about her experience that others may know that they also have spiritual tools at their disposal. The power of the mind is available to anyone who chooses to use it. She wrote about her experience to encourage others facing major life challenges and losses to find the strength within to keep going.

This account would resonate with any woman who has felt abuse of the more subtle kind, anyone who has been partner to a person with narcissistic behaviour patterns and in fact anyone who has experienced a major financial loss or trust issue with a partner they trusted and loved.