It Didn’t Just Happen

I was inspired to write this book when, way back in 2006, I felt hopeless and suicidal. I was running an international charity and receiving acclaims yet at the same time I was, privately, badly struggling. The strains of long hours of work, the expectations and stress of never-ending demands on my time and resource and much more, made my personal life a misery. I was depressed and suffering in silence. I could not talk to anyone; I thought no one would understand or believe me. I mean, who in their right mind would have believed that I felt lost inside one minute, when another, I was being featured as ‘charity champion’ in Daily Express newspaper, next I was winning a Millennium Award and further up, I was being invited to No.10 Downing Street and to Buckingham Palace to meet Her Majesty the Queen. It was an ironic situation, but one which was no fun to find oneself in. I simply could not open up and it felt awful. I was deeply lonely and on many occasions wished I was dead…