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Surviving Summer Well With ChildrenView
Summer is here and the end of school will arrive shortly. Keeping your children occupied is arguably the most difficult part of the summer, and this is especially so if you are a survivor of domestic abuse and/or are separated or divorced, whether you need to share the parenting with …
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Celebrating Our VolunteersView
This weekend, we’re celebrating the Queens’ Jubilee with the rest of the country, but I want to take a moment to celebrate some lesser known, but frankly equally worthy people - the volunteers who make the work that we do at Restored possible.I stepped into my role as CEO of …
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The Istanbul Convention: All Women Means All WomenView
8 June 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of the UK signing the Istanbul Convention. This major human rights treaty establishes comprehensive legal standards to ensure women’s right to be free from violence. This treaty is desperately needed. If the last year has shown us anything, it’s that women and girls …
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Rosemary's footstepsView
My first walk- Hadrian's Wall - was 'inspired' by a wish to lament. As part of my own recovery I threw myself into learning all I could about domestic abuse including the theology that traps women - what I call the 'theology of abuse'.I was so gripped by the horrors …
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Rachel's Story - The Father's songView
I probably never would have used the word abusive about my marriage - I didn’t really understand what it meant. What I did know is that I was deeply unhappy, afraid and not sure that I could survive, isolated and alone in a country thousands of miles away from my …
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Baby Steps Towards Relieving Loneliness and Building Community in Your LifeView
Loneliness awareness week runs this year from 13th-17th June. The isolation during the pandemic and the subsequent slow re-emergence to normal life, which now includes a huge increase in working from home, has inevitably created more loneliness in our communities. Loneliness affects millions of people in the UK every year …
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The 4 A’s of Stress ReliefView
Coming out of a pandemic and returning to normal life with all its demands, responsibilities and expectations may feel like there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done.Survivors of domestic abuse often have the extra stress of starting again, managing a new life and potentially sharing …
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Why is ‘the Oscar slap’ so disturbing….?View
Alongside millions of other TV viewers, I witnessed Will Smith, assault Chris Rock live on television. It was a truly shocking moment. Millions of people around the world saw it happen, as did several thousand people live at the Oscars ceremony. Yet after the infamous blow was landed, the show …
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You made a fool out of meView
There’s an old Motown song sung by Mable John that sums up how many survivors of domestic abuse feel: I should have never let you knowThat I love you, love you soMy big mistake was to let it showAnd you see, you made a fool out of me You make …
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New BeginningsView
The End.Two small words that can bring about an enormous emotional reaction in us. I wonder what your response might be? It might be an image or an experience or even just a sense activated by these words. And yet life is full of beginnings and endings, it’s one of …