I recently joined the PSA (Professional Speaking Association) last September and attended their convention in October in Nottingham which was great. One lunch I sat with a man named Paul who was from South Africa and he asked me what I spoke about. I explained my story to him and happened to have a book with me, so I gave him a copy. I’ve been very lucky and have been referred for lots of speaking events and last year I made the decision to stop being a psychotherapist and to focus on speaking more, but I decided that I needed […]
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Saturday was one of those beautiful crisp sunny days in Glasgow and we took the dogs for a long walk in our local county Park. Along the way I noticed the first signs of spring coming with all the beautiful colours of the spring flowers emerging. It made me think that recovery from trauma and spring have a lot of similarities. When I look back at my own journey of healing from trauma (I was gang raped at thirteen) I can see that I did anything to numb out and not feel. I shut myself down and placed myself in […]
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I’m sure you’ve seen this challenge all over Social Media at the moment. You know the one where people are sharing what they looked like 10 years ago compared to now. Well, it had me thinking how different I was then to how I am now. You see, ten years ago I hadn’t “come out” yet publicly about being raped because I was still so concerned about what other people would think. I wrongly assumed that people would see me how I saw myself for years. That I was damaged goods, worthless and contaminated. I was still consumed […]
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