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 | 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...
by Madeleine Black | Jun 17, 2019
If anybody told me that one day, I would be standing on the famous TEDx red dot in front of an audience of 2000 people to share my most intimate details of being gang raped as a thirteen-year-old, I would never have believed it But on June 14th, with a talk titled...
by Madeleine Black | Oct 11, 2018
I will always stand with survivors The biggest fear for me when I first shared my story of rape was whether I would be believed. But why would I make it up?! There are so many reasons why people who have experienced rape/sexual assault keep quiet and...
