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the rehab ladder - by visakan veerasamy

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progress requires facing the truth of where you stand

the rehab ladder progress requires facing the truth of where you stand visakan veerasamy Jun 04, 2026 57 11 9 Share I’ve been sick a lot lately, which is rumoured to be near-inescapable if you’re a parent of a preschooler. Whenever I get sick, I’m reminded of a quote from Virginia Woolf 1 – “what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view... what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the acts of sickness”. Even before falling sick, a strong motif for me in recent years has been one of dereliction, of ruin, of things forgotten. The context is always col

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