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Writing for those who value honesty over comfort and depth over dopamine.... Reflections on childhood trauma, family systems, silence, healing, the truths we shouldn't rush past and raising emotionally safe children. ♥️
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The Secret Did Not End When The Abuse Did... (opens the original)
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⚠Content Warning: My writing explores childhood trauma and difficult personal experiences that some readers may find distressing. Please read at your own pace and take care of yourself along the way.There is so much about sexual abuse within a family that we never say out loud.Even when we talk about it, we often move quickly from the abuse to the disclosure. From what happened to the moment someone finally told.There is a whole life in between those two things.For me, that life was an endless a
Nothing Prepared Me for Their Files... (opens the original)
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⚠Content Warning: My writing explores childhood trauma and difficult personal experiences that some readers may find distressing. Please read at your own pace and take care of yourself along the way.There is something deeply unsettling about reading your childhood in somebody else’s handwriting… somebody else’s words.Things you lived through appear between dates, appointments and decisions. Your family becomes a case. Someone describes your parents. Someone records a concern. Someone decides wha
The Day I Gave Evidence Against My Half-Brother (opens the original)
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I arrived at Manchester Crown Court alone.My brother Daniel and my sister Corryna were back at the hotel. A lady met me at the witness entrance and took me through to a witness room, where someone from victim care greeted me with a smile. She explained the court process and what would happen next. I wish I could tell you what she said. I don’t remember much of it. In fact, I don’t remember much of that morning at all. But I remember that she was friendly. Approachable. The information has mostly
Questions I Have Carried About My Half-Brother... (opens the original)
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Some questions belong to childhood. Some follow you into adulthood. And some remain even after a jury finally gives you an answer.There are photographs of my half-brother Adrian from the years when he was sexually abusing little girls.That sentence still feels extraordinary to write.Not because I doubt it. I don’t. I know it’s true. A jury has now heard the evidence against him. They convicted him unanimously of eleven sexual offences against two of us. But because, before he became the defendan
I Have a Name. Why Isn’t That Enough... (opens the original)
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Since I gave up my legal right to lifetime anonymity, I have spoken publicly about what happened to me more than ever before. I have not gone into detail or told the full story, but I have shared the basic truth out loud several times now.With that has come something I hadn’t fully anticipated.Labels.Victim.Survivor.The latter is usually offered as the kinder word. People will sometimes correct themselves. “Victim... sorry, survivor.” I understand why.There is nothing inhere
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