by Madeleine Black | May 13, 2020
It didn’t take long. Just hours after Duffy published an Instagram post revealing that she had been drugged, raped and held captive for several days, people were responding with jokes, even using her own song lyrics to make light of what had happened. One media...
by Madeleine Black | Jan 28, 2020
January 27th marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and it made me think of my lovely Dad, Leo Geddy (Leopold Gedajlovic) For those of you who don’t know, my dad was a Holocaust Survivor His parents, brothers and sisters were all murdered at Auschwitz...
by Madeleine Black | Dec 30, 2019
Up until last year, I had worked for twelve years as a psychotherapist, but I was getting asked more and more to attend various speaking events to share my story. It got me thinking that maybe I should stop working as a psychotherapist to focus on speaking more but I...
by Madeleine Black | Jul 16, 2019
I’ve had a lot of questions asked since I did my TEDxGlasgow talk a few weeks ago. One of them has been what was I wearing around my neck! Some people thought it was a cross but as they know I’m Jewish, they were confused I was wearing the symbol known as the Zia...
by Madeleine Black | Jun 24, 2019
On Friday June 14th I stood on the famous TEDx red dot and shared my story with an audience of 2000! Here is a transcript for you of my talk : Is there something holding you back? Something that nobody else knows, that you can’t speak about? When I was thirteen, I...
