<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ascendria Collective]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ascendria Collective]]></description><link>https://www.ascendriacollective.co.uk/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:14:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ascendriacollective.co.uk/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[She Deserves To Be Loved]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story of a woman who has seen the worst of people — and chosen to fill her life with the best of them. She found him in a flat that was wrong in every way. The call had come in as a noise complaint. She knocked on the door, wasn’t satisfied with the answer she got, asked the neighbours a few questions, and knocked again. The flat was immaculately clean — unnervingly so — and there was no child in sight. But someone had reported hearing a child being hurt. She asked her colleague to look...]]></description><link>https://www.ascendriacollective.co.uk/post/she-deserves-to-be-loved-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27e56b99361b5d20d3fbd9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:05:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_bf2a7cc02bd44eddba80121f46a8fc3b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>troy596</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Was Always the Girl on the Outside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part One: The Making of Kara — how boarding school, belonging and the search for love shaped a woman who was never quite supposed to fit in. She was nine years old when she decided she wanted to go to boarding school. She had read Malory Towers. She was enchanted. Midnight feasts, treasure hunts, adventures down long corridors with girls who became sisters. She went home and told her parents and didn’t stop until they agreed to look into it. The military subsidised it. Her parents took her to...]]></description><link>https://www.ascendriacollective.co.uk/post/she-deserves-to-be-loved-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27e5562d2809110fe88ac2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:05:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_0d70dadbbd1f49f5b672687e57667173~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>troy596</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Was Always the Girl on the Outside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part One: The Making of Kara — how boarding school, belonging and the search for love shaped a woman who was never quite supposed to fit in.     She was nine years old when she decided she wanted to go to boarding school.   She had read Malory Towers. She was enchanted. Midnight feasts, treasure hunts, adventures down long corridors with girls who became sisters. She went home and told her parents and didn’t stop until they agreed to look into it. The military subsidised it. Her parents took...]]></description><link>https://www.ascendriacollective.co.uk/post/she-deserves-to-be-loved</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27e2ec579005354a9e2627</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:56:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_ded5b1c2d01c49c9992e05adb9217b9c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>troy596</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>