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Nature helped me survive my BREAKDOWN

On Valentine’s Day 2017, I was working on our new smallholding in the frosty air. As we dug, I caught sight of the first snowdrops. With their white heads loosening, promising spring, I felt sure my dream of a simpler life was coming true. By 2020, our not-so-simple life had unravelled my mind.

My husband Jared and I had married at 25 and by our early 30s, we had busy careers, two children and had moved from London to Ramsgate. As

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