I am 75 years old. I have a PhD (acquired over 32 years in 5 different doctoral programs in 2 countries, with no recognition of prior learning) finally in managerial fraud (2011), where I developed a unique theory to understand how fraudsters were stealing massive amounts in plain sight and did not get caught for years. Using this theory, I can identify real and potential fraudsters by investigating certain factors that others don’t.

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I have a 50-year record of presenting at conferences and teaching programs and as well as TV and radio appearances. I started with funding my trip to the US to see my American boyfriend by writing, at the time, the World’s Longest Letter, this led to several television interviews at the age of 19. You can see from my TikTok channel (@terrysheridan) I am comfortable with a video camera and also making AI videos to my text.

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I am an adoptee and was separated from my mother when I was 4 days old. This is the foundation of my life which could have ended up tragically or dead.

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I have an intelligence which is quite different from most academics and practitioners, it is an enquiring genius level mind layered with ADHD, connecting dots where no one else has even seen the dots! I started my career in social work after an honours degree in social administration in England where I was born. This led to studying social welfare policy in a master’s program in Canada. My two daughters were born there and I really enjoyed the country very much. However, the cold winters got to me and I migrated my family to Perth, Australia.

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At this point I became very much involved with small business policies – or lack thereof, and I stood as an independent candidate for a State election and failed dismally! I was conducting research, including a census of 5,000 small businesses; writing papers on small business planning and so on. I did consultancy research with government development bodies in between my full-time jobs. I was fired "let go" by 3 of these full-time positions, despite bringing in millions of dollars of programs for those non-profits. I excelled beyond their imagination and expectations, and I learnt the hard way that sexism is alive and well in Australia. If I wanted to stay employed I had to conform to mediocre performance.  I was bullied out of my final job where I was a director of 4 functions – HR, Finance, Corporate Development and IT in a superannuation fund that was the 10th largest in Australia with over $2bn in assets. My health took a hit. Very similar to what is happening now with Long Covid.

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I then started my own business Guardian Angel People in 2002. My research on unemployed women managers showed that their outcomes were quite different than men, particularly their mental health. Meanwhile I designed and led a course for unemployed managers and developed a hugely successful program based on the Vapourise Technique.

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My husband was retiring so we moved to France. I was attracting some attention with my ideas in the UK then Brexit hit, followed by Covid. Everything stopped.

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I then spent 4 years finding my father but I had no name, only my DNA. Another PhD sized project. I amalgamated an offline database of over 30,000 people and I found my half-brothers and sisters on my father’s side. We were all born in England, and out of 5 of us, 4 lived in France. My husband died prematurely and so I moved to the South of France to be close to 2 of my siblings.

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So the next stage of my life has begun and that is to build my website for the Vapourise Technique to reach more people achieve happiness.

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The Setting for the Vapourise Technique

How it all began. I was 48 years old and very unhappy. A difficult time in my marriage and at work. I had a shunt type car accident resulting in a whiplash. 15 years later I had the same type of accident and my doctor put me on an anti-depressant as the latest findings were that it helped with neuropathic pain. 3 weeks later the sun shone inside my head. I hugged everybody that came close to me. It was fantastic. After a couple more weeks I went back to my doctor asking him to change my medication as it was making me euphoric and I had to be serious with a large agency to run. We discussed it and agreed that I would only be on them, for 3 months.  But this wasn’t euphoria, it was actually normal living.

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As I had only felt like this about a handful of times in my life including the birth of my 2 daughters, it hit me that I was actually permanently depressed and this must have been from my adoption. As I got fired from the agency, I had 6 months doing consultancy work and had the time to work/walk this out.

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Adoption

Adoption rips you apart. You are stripped of your identity and meant to be a cute little baby who will fulfil the adopter’s life. This hardly ever happens. So, I had to figure out who I am. I also had to figure out my emotions as things were getting bad at home.

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And this is where the magic happened. I researched as well as I could but the internet in 1998 was nothing like it is now, with only libraries available. So, without the benefit of a ton of books, I had to doggedly sort out my feelings on my daily walks myself. It took 6 months for me to gradually put together my negative feelings. There was literature about phobias and anxiety, also anger but very little about loss, apart from the 5 stages of grief from Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s work. And adoption is all about loss. It’s like a tumbleweed in the wind, never being able to catch hold of my roots.

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The CAT model

I walked and walked. I had to sort this out. Am I really feeling this or is it something that others put in place? Then it hit me: there were a distillation of emotions to Connection, Appreciation and Trust (my CAT model). And on the negative side there was Anger in Connection, Sadness in Appreciation and Fear in the Trust dimension. Well, its ok to sort out the negative emotions, but I wanted to be happy.

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Then I realised that, as well as a negative emotion there was a positive emotion on the other side of the dimension that erased it. Connection had Love or Respect, Appreciation had Joy, and Trust had Confidence.

This was exactly like an artist’s palette of colour. Every colour boiled down to 3 colours: red, blue and yellow. Any colour you want is generated out of these primary colours.

And so it was with the 3 dimensions. Put them together and the CAT model emerged.

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This is the first time an effective personal change model has been developed that works for almost anyone. By using various steps in the Vapourise Technique, peace and happiness ensues.

 

Then when we are negotiating life there are inevitably stressors that hit us, and using this technique we can rebound much quicker like in hours instead of grinding through it, day by day for months, years. I found it was imperative to sort out the issues if I was feeling negativity. I didn’t want to be unhappy. I wanted to change my life forever. 

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And it worked. Each time I felt a negative feeling I could label it and developed 3 bridges (Compassion bridge for Connection, Comparison bridge for Appreciation, and the Competence bridge for Trust) to get to the other side of that particular dimension.

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This not only helps adoptees but anyone. You see, we all have feelings as we are human. It doesn’t matter what race, gender, culture, religion or age, we all share the same feelings. This is the essence of our humanity.

I have been working to put the dimensions together on a website www.vapourisetechnique.com 

Why is this important? Because everyone has the opportunity of feeling better, to being in positive emotion. There is a ripple-on effect where one person changes it affects others and they change too. Family, friends, people you meet in everyday life – all are affected by positive emotions. They are liberated from the chains of drudgery, poor relationships, soul destroying work, low or no income, drugs and alcohol.

 

War on the horizon

And it is my belief that we need peace NOW. Our world is terrifyingly on the brink of war. I live in France, which is far too close to the Russian-Ukraine war. It is male testosterone fuelled aggression underlying this grab for power.

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What can the ordinary person in the street do? Getting into positive energy takes away the tyrant’s power. If many people changed to positive emotions, wars will cease, education will increase, business will flourish, prosperity will grow, climate change will ease and be modified. And most importantly for all human beings they can love and feel love and can reach their true potential.

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I haven’t had a near death experience, but I have been in situations of where I was nearly killed in civil war, earthquakes, cyclones, working in dreadful organisations that are led by autocrats and suffering mediocre management to silently trying to make ends meet.

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We have to stop this aggression. And we have to do it now.

This technique does not cure mental illness, it changes the way how you feel about it. I have seen many people with disabilities (I was CEO of a non-profit) manage this change and they are a lot happier in their lives.

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We can stop the power that we give to large institutions who take over our decisions. We can stop governments being corrupt, taking our taxes to line their nests. We can stop homelessness. We can stop poverty. We can stop ignorance. We can stop suicides. We can stop the drug barons. We can stop the tyrants who rule over us.

We can stop all of this.

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Ambitious as it is, we can stop everything that produces negative feelings. It is not rocket science – just take out the negativity and we are left with happiness, serenity and peace.

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And Mel you can do this with your wide audience to help stop this now. With just one, only one person changing to positive emotions it creates a profound change. It starts with a few snowflakes - that grow into a little snowball and it goes from there to create the avalanche that we need in this world to live properly. To live our lives in harmony with nature, with industry for what we need and is tempered by our respect of the land.

 

Our history

It was about 8,000 ago that we started to settle on patches of land and started growing grains, fruit and animals near rivers or springs. This was not a paradise, life was hard with hunger and the climate change from warm to cold to warm again. Life expectancy was low, infant mortality was high.

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Hunting stopped

The last European Auroch (original wild cow) died in the 1600s in the forests of Poland. North American Bison were down to 541 animals in 1889.The hunting period stopped for most people about 260 generations ago. Kinship groups at that time were about 30 individuals. Enough people to eat a prey animal, say a sabre tooth tiger, within 3 days before the carcass rotted. We followed the herds of animals and we learnt how to cull but keep numbers of the animals up so that there would be a steady supply in the future. A hunting leader was assigned by the group and possibly first of all there were several leaders like being a shaman or medicine women. Representative of equality, women were worshipped as they were the ones who brought life into the world.

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Life changed when someone got the idea of tying up animals and breeding out their wildness. Simultaneously women foraged and collected seeds of grasses that could be pummelled into flour and baked on hot coals. Very soon the kinship group generated more food than it could eat. And this is the point where it all turned nasty. Men are particularly prone to aggression and because hunting stopped there was nowhere to use their testosterone physically. For the first time, fights broke out, and a new kind of misery started.

 

Conclusion

It is my belief that we have to do this now, if we are serious to stop war, civil unrest, poverty, ignorance. I’m 75, not 25.

The Vapourise Technique is safe, it works with 90% of people. (psychopaths are in the 10%, including Trump and Putin) And we must stop the onset of World War 3.

Use the Vapourise Technique to move to positive feelings. Enough people doing this will change the world.

Each module is $15, there are 5 modules. Changes can be felt as quick as 3 days with cramming, more likely 3 weeks is the earliest. Take your time when to do this. Fresh insights will be generated which you will love.

This is not a get rich quick scheme. This is a peace embedded scheme which can save the world.

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