Listen to this on the podcast This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours Families, can’t live with them, can’t bury them under the patio. One of those things that survivors have to deal with. Given that the majority of survivors have been abused by a family member, it is hardly surprising that we struggle with … Continue reading Open Journal #54
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Open Journal #53
Listen to this on the podcast Things I Wasn’t Meant to Know, But Did Anyway Two completely unrelated incidents, but not. My family unit was a mother and a father, and three younger sisters. Nothing had ever suggested otherwise. I was going away to boarding school, and the organising took weeks. A uniform to buy. … Continue reading Open Journal #53
Open Journal #50
Listen to this on the podcast We have taken to being on a video chat with each other while we do things — sometimes we’re at our desks, sometimes emptying a dishwasher — like an office for the work-from-home types. Just an American friend and I, chewing the fat, as I believe you call it. … Continue reading Open Journal #50