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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 …
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Look! the bride!View
Look! The bride!she's coming. So pretty!Everyone turns, everyone smiles,so young , so pure, so lucky for Him The Groom. He is waitingHow proud and how kindEveryone loves him, everyone says"He'll make a good Husband,He'll look after her,He preaches, He prays,so young, so godly, so lucky for her". He takes her …
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Dancing for NazaninView
I did a little dance for Nazanin today. A dance of joy that she is finally home, that she can hold her daughter once again, feel her husband's arms around her, sleep in her own bed. All those little things that we so often take for granted yet become the …
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#BreaktheBiasView
Imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias. This is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day held on Tuesday March 8th 2022. This may give us …
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Rehabilitating a domestic abuser. How the Church should respond.View
Last week we learnt that Prince Andrew settled his sexual assault case with Virginia Guiffre. This action does not infer an admission of guilt nor a conviction of guilt - and that fact is not relevant to this blog. However, some of the arguments of Prince Andrew’s solicitors, before the …