Labour's Dan Jarvis on coping with horrors of war and pain of losing wife to cancer
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mirror.co.ukLabour MP, Sheffield City Region Mayor and former paratrooper Dan Jarvis has seen the horrors of war... but they were nothing compared to the grief of losing his wife at just 43. Here in an exclusive extract from his new book, Long Way Home, he recalls some moments that helped shape him... I wouldn’t necessarily recommend the coping box as a strategy for others but it somehow saw me through the toughest of times.
It was a Colour Sergeant who introduced us to the concept. He said: “The way I’ve always got myself through is by putting all my worries in a box – what I call a coping box. “When you’re in the heat of an operation, when your mates are being killed and maimed, you don’t have time to grieve, don’t have time to think too deeply
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