Starting the Journey
Posted By Steve Trulgia on 25 March 2002
It was at the end of July 2001 when it all started. I was happily getting on with life as a professional stunt performer and musician. Having had a long background of extreme sports, from rock climbing and mountaineering to triathlon, long distance canoeing and skydiving; and 20 years of military work as a reservist in both the SAS, and later Royal Marines SBS; I was happily resigned to the fact that my days of extreme activities were over, save for the practice and maintenance of skills required for my stunt work in film and television.
Until a year ago I'd always worked at various projects and businesses without ever stopping to slow down or rest. With a hyperactive mind there was always planning and thoughts and ideas swimming around my head, from which there was no respite. I worked tirelessly on new projects and found it physically and mentally exhausting trying to keep up with the sheer pace of new ideas. For years I thought that this was normal, after all, I'd been like it since my earliest childhood memories.
A year before this time, I had been persuaded by my, then girlfriend Ellen, to take some time out. To relax now and again, and to listen to my body, a concept I resisted. What she saw, as an alternative therapist and yoga devotee, was that the pattern within me was becoming out of control. I was constantly tired, even in the morning, and my stress levels were through the roof; wasn't this normal?
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