Nothing sweet about me!

At dinner , the talk  got around to books. One of my sisters in law chatted away to m about "Mills and Boone" type romantic stories, her choice of course, but what was amazing to me was that she thought quite definitely that this would also be my choice of reading material!!! YUK !
I read lots of non- fiction books of course, lots of inspiring science etc,  But The company were quite amazed when I told them that if I read fiction it is very hard core stuff! Nordic Noire, serial killers, thrillers, even Ku Klux Clan!
We got to talking about how we make so many assumptions about people, the music they might like the way they may feel about stuff, and it was quite a revelation.
I for example, don't do maudlin sentimentality! It makes me cringe.
I don't listen to slow "meaningful" songs, I like loud rock music - anything that makes me want to dance!
I wouldn't thank anyone for expensive chocolates, but having grown up by the sea I would almost do murder for a stick of rock!
I don't do sickly sweet posts on facebook, I don't enjoy tear jerking christmas adverts  or sloppy films!
Does this make me cold heartless bitch? I certainly hope not! !

I love so many things and people, I care passionately about many causes, I just  have a different way of thinking about it.
When I was young, I was bombarded with hypocritical over sentimental religious crap, the  "beatific" pose of my mother and her sainted sisters concerning all things vaguely catholic The sickly veneer designed to show piety, when underneath there was judgmentality, cruel criticism and  abuse.  The imperitive to preserve the face of the church, the lies and the threats. Smiling at everyone and yet at home praying for someone to die because they didn't measure up.
Every time I did anything wrong I was told that it was "like going up to the baby jesus in his pram, and SLAPPING him really hard until he cried, and then doing it again and again"
I felt lower than a snakes belly in the grass, which of course was the whole idea!
Emotional blackmail and psycho-terror was what was underneath that pious sickly sweet veneer.
So I don't do it, I don't trust it, and it makes me feel hypocritical.
But I DO have meaningful "talsimen"
I am wearing a silver necklace that Ton bought me when we were in Geneva at the UN.
I wear  a ring that I got  from Gary's brother at a fete when I was in Boston .
I wear some earrings with the Happy Humanist symbol
Although I left behind the AA programme many years ago, I wear a 
bracelet with the AA symbol on it, to remind me how my life was saved.
I have a tattoo on my arm  which says "Nicholas" in Chinese , reminds me of my beautiful son who died, and also that I practice Chinese medicine.
My car has a "Darwin" sticker on the bonnet.
I have a clock in the wall of my office made in Nepal of `Bamboo, a treasured memory.
A " Coldstream Guards" shield on another  wall to remind me of one of my son's army carreer.
I wear a watch that my very close friend Kim bought me for my sixtieth birthday, Cartier, far too expensive for me but he is so like that1

On the back of my bedroom door, I have all my scarves, although I have never bought a scarf for myself in my life.
There is the one that my beautiful Italian friend Paola gave me, the one that Alda gave me, the one my grandaughter brought back for me from Bolivia, the one that my Nepalese Humanist visitors brought me from Katmandu, the wonderfully finely knitted one that John and Sally Shuster brought me from the US. Others that the children have given me for presents over the years.
My house is full of the wonderful paintings that Gez has painted especially for me. And everywhere I turn there is a memory of someone or something that means a lot to me.
Love is what drives me and what sustains me, I just wouldn't feel my heart was safe  if it were  worn safe on my sleeve!

Brain on duty!

Recovering from my operation has prompted me to tell you about the process and experience of being out of control again.It is wrong for those of us who are very "verbal" and appear always to be o.k. to not talk equally loudly about the times when things are NOT!
That is what sharing our experience strength and hope is all about. 
So I have to "fess up" that I have had a pretty shitty week trying to recover from this operation, and feeling vulnerable and sorry for myself.
The issue of course is all about "triggers" and one of mine is that I hate things that are "done" to me, that I have no control over, regardless of how beneficial they might be. It triggers every hurt and panic that i have ever experienced .
I teach about this all the time, about PTSD and how triggers work and yet when it happens to me again I get into a state of anxiety!
And that really is as it should be! My brain has logged in to those things that are dangerous to me, being out of control is one of them, and when faced with them I will go into "fight or flight" mode, it is a biological saviour! But it doesn't mean it doesn't fell bloody awful!
As I always say, the problem is not about knowing something, it is about feeling it!
The part of the brain that hears the wise words of "it will be ok" "you are getting better" "this is normal" etc. etc. is NOT the part of the brain that is screaming! And it cannot feel anything.
The part that IS screaming is the bit that cannot hear the wise words! All it does is FEEL!
My operation was to straighten my septum and clear my nasal passages so I can breathe more easily, it seems that as well as the other bits and pieces that go along with abuse (and old age!)  I have sleep apnoea which means I stop breathing entirely in the night,  not  healthy habit!
When I saw the consultant recently, he remarked that my breathing is "all over the place" apart from having asthma and bronchiectasis,  he asked me "any history of trauma"? It gave me quite a shock.
Of course I know about traumatic breathing in PTSD and i know that I have always struggled with my breathing, but to her the words again make it all so real.
The thing is that it doesn't go away! I know that too, but when faced with the reality of it I was again shocked.
And now because I have been  pretty inert, very little energy and have to rest a lot , I was  going crazy again! Things were  out of my control, and that  is a BIG trigger. I have cried buckets, about everything that happened to me, I have felt depressed and inconsequential and self absorbed and guilty.
I felt it didn't matter if I got up in the morning or I didn't, and I was miserable!
But knowing about my brain  and how it is hard wired to protect me, understanding why these triggers occur and why ultimately they are a GOOD thing , I can accept it better, and do something about it. 
That knowledge has given me the power to get over things quicker,  it  means I don't have to wallow for too long, and I can use the experience to my own advantage. 
Because the fact remains that there will never be a complete wiping of the slate, there will always be things I have to be aware of and avoid,  but knowing that my brain has got the power to safeguard me , is wired to allow me to survive -is a great comfort! 

(feeling better already!)

IT NEVER HURT ME!

And while I am on the subject, when we are looking for justice for the crimes of childhood sexual abuse and institutional cover ups,  what on earth  would possess us to feel great about going to our legal system? There may be some dedicated and committed lawyers here, but most of the time our archaic system renders them toothless!
When the highest court in our land, the House of Lords  is full of landed gentry,who mostly have inherited their titles,half of whom  have been to Public schools where "buggering little boys" was almost seen as jolly sport and "It never hurt me" is often  their  insane justification!
IT WAS CHILD ABUSE you morons!
Top all that with the 26 unelected bishops who have their place in the House of Lords,  It does not bode well for fair and just unbiased attitude against  those in power who have abused their positions of trust and continue to do so. WTF!

That will Do!

Wonder why people think it is ok to offer a "that will do" approach to clergy abuse?
It is everywhere, and especially as we see the debacle of this "over arching enquiry" in the UK. A cynical "that will do" mentality, to satisfy critics, and then a quick turn around when the Home Secretary realises she hasn't a clue.
She has a "panel" of course, who they are is unclear, how they were chosen is equally unclear, and in the mean time survivors are left feeling sidelined or exploited.
Some victim groups are equally easily satisfied, as long as they get their "funding" or their kudos, they will settle for very little for those they represent. This is NOT acceptable!
It is simply appalling that having survived the worst betrayal of body and trust we should be relegated  to the position of vermine scavenging for our needs to be met by unfeeling, ignorant  or cynical people with their own agendas.
STOP BLOODY BEGGING! 

For Survivors of sexual abuse:
NOTHING but the very BEST will do!
The very BEST legal representation, 
The very BEST  therapy, 
The very BEST  choices, 
The very BEST and FULL attention to all of the complexities of their plight.
An all inclusive, open and transparent honest attempt to put things right, 
Anything less is not good enough!
And if we, as survivors, accept this cynical and condescending attitude, we are accepting a second class place in our world and after what we have all endured, it is  simply NOT good enough!
Take your rightful place as the precious irreplaceable unique individual you really are and hold out for the very BEST!

LETTER TO THERESA MAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2014

Enclose a copy of the letter that we are sending today to Theresa May before this becomes any more of a farce!

Dear Home Secretary

I write as the founder of a European-wide network of Survivors of abuse, based here in the Midlands, and as an NGO for the United Nations Commission for the Rights of the Child in relation to child abuse.

I hear today that you are going to be making a statement in the House of Commons to illustrate your plans for the over-arching enquiry into historic child abuse in this country and I also hear that you are going to be consulting survivor groups for their input into this.  We welcome this as in order for this inquiry to move forward, we believe that you are going to need to go back to grass roots.

For my organisation and in light of our involvement with the UN CRC in relation to both the Vatican cover-up of abuse and the Committee against Torture, we formally request the opportunity to meet with you to discuss the needs of the thousands of survivors from our organisation, specifically as our expertise is in relation to institutional and clergy abuse.

We take no pleasure is saying this but the truth is that the UK did not fair as well as it might have done in relation to child welfare reviews with the UN in recent years.  Yet here we have a unique opportunity to show the rest of the world that we are not afraid to look under our own rocks to see what is crawling there and to deal with it in an authentic, professional, ethical and inspirational way. 

What concerns our organisation is that unless this is done correctly and in a thorough and head-on manner, it will simply look like avoidance, box-ticking, additional cover-ups and will undermine the survivor community’s genuine hopes that you are the person to make this happen.  If not then it will fall by the wayside as so many other so-called investigations have.  Survivors are used to just having something ‘thrown at them’ to shut them up or to appease them, or because other people believe that they know what we need. This inquiry needs to break that trend once and for all.

We believe that we are at a critical and historic moment in relation to how we respond to ever-increasing covered up child abuse cases, and I believe it is up to everyone with a voice to be part of that in a brave and fearless way.  This is not a palatable subject, it will be painful to hear and sad to see but to delay any further is costing lives – that is not dramatic, that is the reality and truth of the damage that is being done to survivors every single day. We do not want this inquiry to be another part of that damage.

We have been asked by the UN CRC to report back to them with developments in this arena in our country and we will continue to do that.  We want to be able to say as evidence givers that the UK is doing something radical and profound in relation to child abuse and we would hope that this would be something that our government would be behind.

We respectfully believe it would be essential to meet with you and your team in the first instance to put our stance across and to have the opportunity to make our recommendations.  Whilst we know that you have appointed a number of individuals to the enquiry team, we have to be very clear and say that nobody on that team speaks for our organisation as our views and professional and ethical methodologies are so vastly different.  This should not preclude our ability to have a commentary in how this process evolves and we expect to be given such an opportunity before any further work or nominations to the enquiry board are made.

Yours sincerely

Sue Cox

Just A reminder! again!

Just A Reminder!

I have felt the need to repeat and clarify something I wrote a while ago, about the world of survivors. 

There is a lot of talk about “committees” and “enquiries” and “commissions” and “focus groups” , everyone jostling for position at the front etc. So  I think it is really important to keep our very simple messages clear and authentic.

Survivors Voice Europe will never tell you what is the right way for you, there is NO such thing as a “magic bullet” and your own human experiences have given you skills and insight that should be valued and indeed celebrated.

What we will do however is collect and show you as many POSSIBILITIES  as we can for your emergence out of the piles of shit that have been heaped upon you.

Anyone telling you they have the answer is wrong, and says more about their ego than your recovery.

YOU choose the way you want to be, YOU choose the things you want to change in your life.YOU  decide what you want  your world to  look like as you emerge and then decide who and what can can help you get there.

You are a very precious ,unique and irreplaceable human being and deserve the best.

Anything else diminishes you and does not recognise the strength  you have amassed through all of your adversity.

We will never recommend any one person or approach, but  if you want a lawyer, in our pages we can suggest what to look for, if you want a therapist,  we can show you all of them and suggest what you need to be aware of.If you want a few self help tips or health improvement tools we can give you those. But what we will not do is tell you what to do! 

If you do want to talk to us we are here, if you want never talk to us that is also ok! Please use anything there that you find valuable, and leave behind that which you do not.

The World of Survivors

As  we begin  our fight back, the  survivor needs to consider many things, not least the world we  are entering!

The world of the clergy abuse survivors is  not a particularly pretty world! 

It is an ugly subject, one that most  people would prefer not to have to think or talk about, including me! 

It is, however, even more ugly if we don’t talk about it.

You will find there are many  who like to “speak for us” as if we are incapable of doing that ourselves. Those who want to report about the Tsunami who were never even there! 

We are not  goldfish in a bowl to be  stared at ,observed and anylised. We are human beings who have suffered the worst betrayal of body and trust and deserve the best  chance to be  as whole as possible. We need to learn to make  our own decisions about our recovery, and harness that special survivor power we no doubt possess.

In the clergy survivor  movement, there are ,many different people, Rather like those who were in that Tsunami, there were saints and sinners, rescuers and looters,  heroes and villains. People who did survive, those that did not. The only thing they had in common was that they were, in some capacity or other, part of the disaster.

Similarly, in this world of clergy abuse survivors  there are many occupants, strong survivors, damaged victims, many with physical illnesses, there is narcissism, grandiosity and subservience, plenty of mistrust and even paranoia,  the mentally ill ,the addicts, the abusers, the prisoners.. and  all of it clothed in secrecy  and shame.

There are those too, who hover around the periphery of  this world, the condescending, the patronising,the exploitative, but   also, thankfully , the thoughtful, the  respectful, and compassionate.

There are  “career” survivors, the therapists (good and bad!) the lawyers (ditto!)  The people who want to use this cause to further their political careers, in fact there is a positive cottage industry having been created around this tragedy!

Each one of us has to find our own “niche” the place which sits best with our own sensibilities. There are as many who make a real difference,as there many valid  perspectives.

We all make a contribution, and they are all different.

So it is not really helpful to criticise other’s contributions.

But as an “endangered”  damaged individual fighting to survive and thrive, I have had to  learn to discriminate between what is really good for my recovery, and what is simply good for someone else!

 I feel that as a survivor I have to control my own recovery, I may draw on others to help,  we have some wonderful supporters,  but they can only ever be that -  a supporting act!

At survivors Voice Europe we put the Survivor FIRST- we are not interested in expediency or politics, we don’t want money, we won’t accept funding from any organisation(although some kind individuals have insisted on giving to us!)

Anything we are given is put towards  funding one of our projects , which directly support survivors, we will not take any money for administration or travel, we are not career survivors, we see our contribution as a labour of LOVE!

We will refuse any contribution from the church or similar organisation, (knowing full well that they have  their own agendas!) and  we will not any longer jump to anyone’s tune!
We at Survivors Voice Europe don't want "dialogue" with the church , we don't want to "explore the issues" with them, we have no desire to "educate" them we are DONE with them!

We will never recommend anything to any other survivor that we don’t feel we would accept ourselves, and we would expect any ethical, honourable lawyer, therapist, support group, to be open to intense scrutiny! So we will use all our resources  to  investigate thoroughly  anyone who wants to part of this movement, to ensure any exploitation is squashed. 

Our focus is,  and will remain  the individual who has been damaged, how we can connect with each of them, and what we can do to help. We share any skills we have learned freely and with love.

We are not predominantly fighters, although we will get into a fight against the church and other abusers when necessary,( in fact nothing makes my  blood boil more than seeing the further abuse by an unfeeling church.)

But our energies are best used in  helping with the empowerment of each survivor to enable them  to be at their  optimum  as they go forward and begin to soar above those foul abusers.

We are Survivors, not victims, we don’t need to be pitied or patronised. But we do need, and expect, justice.

 We have survived thus far, and retained our dignity,  largely through our own  survival skills, and we resolve to continue to develop  those skills for ourselves and others.

 We all had control of our lives taken away once, we need to take great care never to be in that position again!

FREEDOM -EQUIALITY-SECULARISM !!

I have just been privileged to attend and participate in the wonderful "Religious- Right, Secularism and Civil Rights" conference in London at the weekend.What an amazing experience! What brave and inspiring people! What connections,shared tears, laughter,strength and resolve. 

There are many Tyrannical regimes, they may have different faces and names but their tactics and inhumanity are the same. To be part of this was an honour,I wish you could have all shared ! So here is what I presented.

Peter Tatchell chairing the panel introduced Sue Cox this way:

"Sue is  the Co-founder of Survivors Voice Europe,a self funding organisation of catholic clergy abuse survivors , Sue was herself the victim of catholic clergy abuse as a child.  She describes herself as  "a 67 year old grandmother  with nine life threatening or life limiting conditions, who has been in her time an alcoholic, addict, serious self harmer with an eating disorder, a victim of clergy sexual abuse  and rape , suffered domestic violence  and attempted murder and  was single Mother of six children! "

Sue Cox :

I bet you cant wait to hear what I’ve got to say after that introduction!

When Peter asked me how I wanted to be introduced, I asked him to do it like that  to demonstrate something; How we all are very quick to  make assumptions!

Having described me this way, you may already have a picture in your head. A little bit like the charming man had  who,  after hearing me talk about this at a similar conference, thought it was his civic duty to keep me away from the bar!

       And although it is quite true that I am a recovered addict, what that description doesn’t tell you is that it is thirty eight years since I had a mood altering chemical, that I have worked in the addiction field for 35 years and am considered an expert in  my particular field.

I have developed a programme which is used in the Health service, prison service and military health.In 2010 I received a lifetime’s achievement award for my contribution to addiction treatment.

I head a large teaching organisation,  and I have personally taught thirteen thousand healthcare workers, including many consultant psychiatrists!I teach in 127 UK prisons. 

We all make assumptions!

Peter  also told you that  I was the single Mother of six children! So the image now may be of the old woman who lived in the shoe! Churning out children and living on benefits

                                        

What that image doesn’t say is that although that is perfectly true, I was left with 6 children under twelve when I was 32, I never received benefits or support from my violent ex husband, I worked -and I worked very hard , and now my children are all incredibly well rounded professional people who are an asset to the community.

We all do make assumptions!

Then we come to the bit about having been abused by a catholic priest as a child.

Last Time I spoke at an event like this someone came up to me afterwards and said when they saw it was “Clergy Abuse” survivors, their heart sank because they thought it was “yet another “victim” story”

I can assure you that isn’t what I am going to talk about. My personal story has been told many times, and that is not what this is about, in fact if we continue to dwell on the physical aspect of abuse we are missing the point.

If you look up here and see an old woman who should be pitied then you are making a big assumption!

When we simply focus on the sexual aspect of abuse we are so busy pitying people that we miss the broader more sinister issues.

Survivors voice Europe is very different from other “victim”

groups. For one thing, we focus on the empowerment of survivors, and we are the only organisation to do that very definitely from a Secular, Humanist, Atheist perspective. Today’s event offers my organisation a unique opportunity to delve a little deeper into one of the core principles of Survivors Voice Europe and to illustrate how our ethos keeps all of us that are involved away from that  victim label altogether  
                                                   

We are talking today about many different flavours of tyrant! all equally sinister, but  I can only speak with authority from the perspective of my dealings with the catholic church. Whilst we talk about the rise of new religious factions and break-away groups and the religious right, I feel that we cannot overlook one of the oldest and largest and most man manipulative religious organisations in the world.  

And I say Organisation because that is precisely what it is – a man-made, narcissistic structure who’s tentacles of control and indoctrination go in deep, go in early and are hard to shake off

The catholic church has been destroying peoples lives for two thousand years. And they are still doing just that

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Their rule is total and they exercise this through humiliation and subjugation (lets not forget that in catholicism even babies are born with original sin!), FEAR -  not only of repercussions during our life but fear about what is beyond! The catholic church wants to own us before, during and after our brief moments on this wonderful earth.

And they don’t look like barbarians, in the accepted sense of the word, although their tactics certainly are barbaric. They are educated, high functioning narcissists and like all narcissists they are often charismatic and charming. In that way they “hijack” peoples lives, they take us hostage.

When I was first recovering from addiction I was given this image:

Now, I don’t believe in the devil any more than I believe in god, but it was a very useful analogy..

Imagine your life as a beautiful, fully equipped ship with the potential and everything you need for the voyage in front of you, with the promise that you can go anywhere in the world that you want.

Then the devil hijacks that ship, and while ever you are in the grip of addiction you are powerless to stop his cruel and tyrannical rule. You are in chains, and he continues to rule with cruelty and terror. You are trapped and in dangerous seas.

But in recovery and with a LOT of very hard work, you overthrow that demon, and take back the ship to regain your power.

The devil is then relegated to a slave scrubbing the decks, But he is still barking out instructions! He still thinks he is in charge!

If we even consider listening to that voice for even one moment, we will be soon back in the grips of this narcissist.

Religious organisations, especially  the catholic church do exactly the same!They hijack you, they take you hostage!

And then they are the ones deciding the course of your journey, and people like me find ourselves  gazing into the horizon at a flotilla of self-driven, un-hijacked vessels heading off into the great unknown! -  There is no such thing as the great unknown in catholicism! Everything is planned and steered and woe betide you decide to try to escape, because even then they will threaten you with eternal damnation.

This no different from  the many famous  hostage situations throughout history; the Normallstorg bank robbery in Stockholm in 1973, Bovensmilde Elementary School, Entebbe, the Libyan Embassy Siege, the taking of Opec or the 3-day crisis for Air France Flight 8696 in 1994 – there are many crises of this nature, some even happening in your average street in your average house.

 

One elderly survivor of the Air France Flight profoundly described a hostage takers tactics when he commented that ”There was an art to their terror; 30 minutes of relaxation, 30 minutes of torture, you never knew what was next’.

What we know about the brain now is that it is hard-wired to survive at all costs, and the only way to do this is to be hardwired to be afraid of anything that threatens us.

So when, after three days the hostages were released from Normallstorg, it was not inexplicable to us why they would empathise,sympathise and even support the people that had taken them hostage.  

Through a studied process of intimidation, death-threats, random seeming kindnesses, isolation then re-integration into the group, lies, secrets etc. the hostages took the safest line possible – get on the side of the threat to stay alive.

Supplication was the only way, this kind of behaviour is  something  we see in other species too.

We know we integrate as groups, as packs, we now know that this is an important part of social development and cohesion.  But what is REPREHENSIBLE  is when this unique and inherent skill is used against us.

This is precisely the way that many religious organisations work, and is particularly true of the machinations of the catholic church.

Through cynical observation of the human dynamic, our need to belong is used against us. What happens is that as  people who  have been ‘taken hostage’  we end up dancing with a charismatic, Svengali-like narcissistic demon,

in  a sick and twisted eternal tango which is hard to extricate ourselves from.

                                                               

At Survivors Voice we KNOW that extrication from the dance is not only possible, but is  CRUCIAL. We know also that lack of confidence, lack of self-belief, lack of personal agency, lack of opportunities or hope are not how we started on that beautiful boat full of potential at the beginning of life.

We KNOW that these traits are a direct symptom of the toxic and potentially  lethal effects of religious intimidation and menace.
                          

                               
We show that steps to pull away from the need to belong to our captors are  NECESSARY we consider that every time we engage in “dialogue”, or in trying to convince our captors that what they are doing is wrong, or trying to plead or beg for recourse – we are continually giving our power away.

We are back to taking instructions from the deck scrubbing devil. We are feeding that narcissist and giving it back it’s power,

 Our power as survivors lies in going back to our inherent skills of belonging – but belonging to something authentic, somewhere safe where we can be without fear, where our human curiosity is not only celebrated but positively encouraged rather than repressed as sinful or ex communicable!

This is why for us secularism is so important, that deck scrubbing demon which is the catholic church STILL thinks it is in charge, that it can dictate the terms.

We will NOT be entering into “dialogue” again with these narcissists, we will NOT be “exploring the issues” for years on end to no avail, being exploited or re-abused

We will not be standing in front of churches with pictures of our childhood faces, we will not be joining “focus groups” created by churches, we are DONE with them

So when you see a pictures like these please resist the urge to make assumptions!

 What you see is definitely NOT what you get.

There IS NO CHANGE in the vatican, they just swapped a rat faced snake with a smily faced one, both equally slimy! Just a smily faced PR man wheeled in to give a better image to a failing regime.

                              

So having extricated ourselves from the grip of the church, it has allowed us to use our skills to empower others, we are  now connected with many  like minded survivors in Canada, USA, Africa, Australia, Poland, Italy, Russia,Hawaii,Ireland,England,Tasmania,Holland, Spain France and beyond !! Wherever those  catholic tentacles have reached, there will be many people who have been damaged.

No longer constrained by that malignant doctrine, we are free to regain our true potential and to take our place with the rest of the human race, using the skills we have acquired to help others.

I cannot categorically prove that all of my health issues and addictions were as a direct result of my childhood abuses, but the scientific research and evidence is compelling and says it is more than probable.

So in my teaching role I am able to teach others about the severity of abuse, and more importantly, what can help.Our courses “Winning the Battle of the abused brain” are doing just that!

In the same way as I didn’t get sober to sit around talking about drink all day, we didn’t get free from the church to sit around constantly talking about our abuses! We have survived, and survivors of abuse are strong people.

These aren’t innate skills, they have been acquired through dreadful adversity, and now they can be used as fertiliser for growth.

We can stand shoulder to shoulder with others who are fighting similar tyrants and together we are a force to be reckoned with!
                      

Sue Cox Lic.Ac M.B.Ac.C.

www.survivorsvoice-europe.org

0781 380 8026