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 Born in England in 1941, Colin was raised during the war and in early post-war Britain by working-class parents. He has an elder brother and a younger sister, both of whom appear in Chapter 1, “Jill's Story.” By his own account his parents were good people, loving and hardworking, and he considers himself blessed in having had a stable and enjoyable childhood in spite of the social hardships of the time. Even as a boy, he seemed to inspire the trust of people who needed to talk about their feelings, as they found in him a person who would listen and not judge.
After a four-year stint in the Royal Air Force, he became a high school teacher and a college professor, but even then often found himself being sought after to provide counseling for people. He has three children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce after seven years. A second marriage lasted only four, but he nevertheless remains friends with both ex-wives.
He immigrated to America in 1984 and shortly thereafter became certified as a clinical hypnotherapist. He liked hypnotherapy because, after some years of experience, he concluded it speeded up the therapy by a factor of at least three.
He was not religious then and still feels “free” of any organized religious dogma. His spirituality is essentially practical and down-to-earth, simple, free, and open-ended. In 1992, he and his wife JoAnn, whom he met in Atlanta and married in 1990, created a series of healing retreats in the north Georgia mountains for people challenged by cancer. In recognizing that lack of forgiveness was a big part of the causation, they set about refining a new form of forgiveness which later was to become what is now recognized as Radical Forgiveness. Unlike traditional forgiveness, which takes many years and is universally seen as very difficult to achieve, this had to be be quick, easy to do, simple, and therapy-free.
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Radical Forgiveness |
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www.radicalforgiveness.com
www.colintipping.net
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