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Looking Back: How Acceptance Changed Everything
A personal reflection on parenting, healing, and supporting a child’s identity with love, safety, and acceptance.
When ADHD Met PTSD: How Trauma Rewired My Brain and How Understanding That Saved Me
Content note: This piece discusses suicidal ideation and trauma. If you’re struggling, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Resources are at the end. For 34 years, I lived with ADHD, and never once needed mental health services. I’d worked through the front line during COVID, wards, diabetes clinics, and mental health services. Thirty-hour weeks, raising
From Survival to Voice: The Journey Behind NAAvoices
If you met me at work, you’d see a primary care nurse getting on with the job. You’d see the clinic lists, the assessments, the routine pressures of general practice. You might notice that I take safeguarding seriously, that I ask different questions, that I pay attention when something “doesn’t quite fit”. What you probably
Why I Write
A survivor’s testimony documenting coercive control and police failures, the timeline she built to protect her children, and a call to prioritise child safety.
The Accountability That Never Comes from West Mercia Police
May 28, 2024. A date burned into my memory. The day everything I thought was safe crumbled. The day the anti-corruption team arrived at my workplace. I had no idea that standing up against police misconduct would trigger such panic. Or that it would spread through a department so deeply embedded in a culture of
The Friday Everything Broke
After my coercive control case was dropped and police corruption became undeniable, I collapsed at work. This is what despair after re-traumatisation really looks like — and why it is never a sign of weakness.
The Cost of Speaking Truth: A Year That Changed Everything
December 27, 2024 I found myself thinking about the past year this morning, and what might come next. It’s been nearly seven months since Professional Standards and Anti‑Corruption turned up at my workplace. I had no idea what was coming, and I certainly didn’t expect my life to be turned upside down all over again.
The Heartache of Time Lost: A Journey Through Isolation and Healing
A personal story of losing precious years with my grandma due to coercive control, the grief that followed, and the slow journey back to family, safety, and self.
The Heartache of Time Lost: A Journey Through Isolation and Healing
A survivor’s account of years lost to isolation and abuse, the pain of estranged family ties, and the slow work of reclaiming connection and healing.
And Then She Was Gone
After reliving abuse to 19 officers, I found one who listened—Jackie from Professional Standards—only to lose that refuge as systemic failures and misconduct put children and truth at risk. — Sister Laura
