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Ariel have teamed up with Sainsbury’s to support team GB at the Paralympic games, where athletes will have the opportunity to have truly life changing moments, and in light of this, Ariel would like to hear about the life changing moments you’ve had.

Here’s what Ariel have to say: “We have always believed that clothes have the power to bring out our best when the moment matters, but what about when that moment has the potential to be life changing?”

So, share the moments in your life that you feel have been life-changing – whether they’ve changed your life path for the better or the worse.

All those who post below will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Sainsbury's voucher.

Thanks, and good luck!

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Becoming a mum and getting my own home

The day I broke my hip changed my life and have had to live with constant pain for nearly three years now has definitely made things hard work.

Probably 2014 when my wife's sister was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My wife and i took her to many of her Hospital appointments and it was heartbreaking for my wife to see her sister slowly dying. Of course this had an effect on me as it broke my heart to see my wife so upset and I felt so helpless.

Getting married and having my children were my most positive life changing moments.
Having an accident which nearly killed me and has left me with some permanent damage was my worst life changing moment.

My daughter was an unplanned blessing and has always been my guide to tenacity when life feels tough. She was reason I got the professional qualification that now allows me an income that keeps us independent. My job also keeps me well grounded and allows me to continue to study and learn. Both these events changed the course of my life.
The third thing is when I went travelling solo. I met local people with little material wealth but enormous hearts and kindness. I learned about myself too and liked it and have a calmer approach to life since then.

One of my most life changing moments was when I returned to education, as a mature student.

As a child I had never been interested in education, and left school without any qualifications, resulting in a series of low-paid, boring jobs. However, in my early thirties, I decided to gain some qualifications to help me to improve my career.

I enjoyed the courses so much and was motivated and determined to work hard and gain qualifications, thoroughly enjoying the studying and challenges, gaining new friendships along the way.

I gained four A Levels, resulting in gaining a much more interesting job, and better pay.

It was an amazing experience and completely life changing, and I would recommend to others who may be wondering about returning to college.

Going on holiday in gran canaria in 2002 and meeting an amazing man. He is Dutch and meeting him led to me giving up an unsatisfying job, moving to Holland and a few years later having our fantastic son. Now 14 years on we are still very happily married, are living back in the UK and own our hotel - such an unexpected twist in my life but the best thing that ever happened was that holiday!

I met my partner on an online dating website in 2010, and my life is a million times better for it, I dread to think of the direction my life was ging before I met him. Yay for online dating!

When I married my lovely husband! I knew he suffered with ill-health (as I also do) and life would never be easy, but I wouldn't change anything and cannot imagine life without him ...

My mum dying, so suddenly & so unexpected

Best & worst moments were having a baby. Best for the obvious reasons, worst,because the delivery went so badly I ended up needing numerous surgeries over the following 18 yrs, being unable to work most of the time and taking 13 years until I could have another baby

Getting the keys to my first house. It was so very different from staying in shared flats to having full responsibility for everything.

Who would have thought that going to one ice hockey game would change my life completely. I was living in Blackburn & was at a GB international game chatting to the GB team captain. He invited me along to a game at Nottingham where he was also captain & I completely fell in love with the place. One game turned into a lifetime of games & after travelling down 130 miles each way to every game for 8 years I finally took the plunge & moved there, getting a transfer with my job & moving into the most wonderful bungalow in a lovely woodland area which I love. I could never dream of living anywhere else now but who knows where I would have been if I'd missed that ice hockey game.

Meeting my husband ! Without him everything i have now would not be possible !

Having thought long and hard, it was when my son was finally diagnosed with autism, it was long hard battle, and he suffered so much by being treat as the 'naughty boy', my heart broke at parents evening when I saw his desk , away from all the other children, facing a wall on his own. He eventually was diagnosed and got some support, but he will need support for the rest of his life. Here are his own word about school 'school is like the animals trying to climb a tree you get monkeys who can climb to the top easily, I am a fish, I want to do it but know I can never reach the first branch'.

well I left school with nothing, thinking I was stupid, but in my mid thirties decided to do an access course, then did a degree at uel and gained a 2:1 and I'm now halfway through my masters degree in criminal psychology. Being told your not going to be anything when your young is damaging, but my life changing moment is realising that I did have the skills and intelligence to succeed.

Getting my first office job made me grow up and be more sensible. Moving out of my parents' home also made me take responsibility and understand how to budget more. But nothing more life-changing than having a little one of course!

A complete career change at the age of 27 ..I became a fire fighter and I love it !

My mother=-in-law has, within the last two months, fallen and been diagnosed as having an inoperative brain tumour. Having her stay with us so we can look after her at night has certainly been a life-changing event.

Becoming a mum was a complete life changer for me. 10 years on there are not enough hours in the day and am constantly having to repeat myself at times lol and I go to work for peace and quiet and some adult conversation. Overall, whether they make me laugh or cry - I wouldn't change a thing as life has changed for the better.

Holding my husband in my arms as he died.

We had put my daughter in nursery and I was pregnant with my son, we were hardly spending any time as a family and it was costing a fortune. We made the decision that my husband would be a stay at home dad. Money was tight, but after my maternity leave I got a job on shift which paid extra. Although it's tiring it allows us to buy nice things for the kids and take them nice places. My husband is also now home schooling the kids. We all get to spend more time as a family, and the kids get the benefit of having their parents more involved in their lives.

My life changing moment was when DS was diagnosed with autism & ADHD, it made me put things into perspective. I went from the main bread winner to a SAHM, we have learned to manage financially, and DS has progressed far beyond our expectations, with the extra support at home. He has also taught me patience, something I lacked when I was a busy working mum.

I was getting into a really bad way through work, but I took a redundancy payment and we went off to France on a massive adventure for about 7 weeks. I'd not been before. We booked into a naturist campsite for 2 weeks, I'd not done that before either! We drove leisurely down to the south camping in small sites and sometimes laybys with no particular plan beyond the naturist site. When we got there we enjoyed it so much we booked another 2 weeks at another of their sites. We explored lots of places and just switched off completely. After leaving there we were happy to carry on the adventure, going back to pitching the tent in laybys after dark and sleeping in the car on occasion. We did splash out on a hotel here and there when it was worth it. We stayed in Collioure to see an amazing band play, and we accidentally ended up in Paris for Bastille Day and the Eiffel Tower's 120th birthday celebrations, we saw the Tour de France in Arles, and an amazing Picasso and Cezanne exhibition!

It enabled me to switch off and let go, and reset my head! Instead of everything being planned out to the finest detail, I relaxed and went with the flow of things. Life is so much better as a result!

Meeting my husband. I had been a single parent with a 10 year daughter for her whole life. I worked 5 cleaning jobs to pay the bills. One day two men turned up on my doorstep selling gas and electric. I offered them a cup of tea and a bit of shelter from the rain. Later a letter came through the door asking me to go out on a date. I had been alone for 10 years, he took me out and 8 months later we were married. We have now been together 16 years, we own our own home, both have cars. We have our own business and he has brought my daughter up as his own and she is now a vet and married to a farm vet. My life is like a fairytale and I love him now more than ever.