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Local Authority Failures, and Statutory Obligations
I want to talk about statutory obligation because during my time in care, there were many failures. I tried multiple times to make statutory complaints about my care while in childhood, and as an adult. Every single time I was … Continue reading
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Foster Placement 6 *trigger warning*
Please read placement number 6 before reading placement 6 *trigger warning*. this post is a part two, and has a part one. As I stated in part one, the foster mother was fake, manipulative and somewhat sadistic in her mannerisms. … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, life, lived-experience, mental-health, Trafficking, Trauma, writing
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Placement Number 6
The family who lived in placement number 6, were foster parents whom had four biological sons. This family fostered up to four girls at a time, mainly from biracial backgrounds. The foster children slept on bunk beds in one room … Continue reading
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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, childhood abuse, CSA, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, Mental Health, mental-health, social work, Trauma
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Foster Care *Trigger Warning*
I was born in Bristol City, England UK in 1979, after my parents relocated to Bristol in the early 1970s. Most of my childhood was spent growing up during the 1980s and 90s. Bristol has a rich complex history, and … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, foster care, mental-health, Neglect, Trauma
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CSA: From a legal perspective.
To be clear from the start. When looking at your experience from a legal perspective, the therapeutic side does not really come into it. Legal and therapy are too different entities that have too different jobs to do. In blunt … Continue reading
Are Recovered Memories Real?
What a title, and what a war recovered memories saga had on society, the courts and world. When I first learned about recovered memories, it was the only thing that explained what I had gone through. For me, every little … Continue reading
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Tagged betrayal, healing, Memory, mental-health, relationships, Trauma
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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.
I am writing a book based on my own lived experience within the Bristol City Care system. It is a book broken down into subsections and parts. That include Life Circumstance, Police, Courts & Legislation, Mental Health & Well-Being, and … Continue reading
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Recovering Repressed Memories: A Survivor’s Journey Through Fragmented Trauma and Systemic Neglect
Recovering repressed traumatic memories is not a simple act of remembering — it is an unravelling of pain, confusion, and truth. From the perspective of a survivor of child sexual abuse in care, this piece explores the lived experience of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chilchood, healing, historic abuse, Memory, mental-health, ptsd, Recovered memory, therapy, Trauma
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Fragmented, recovered and repressed memories
Living with a fragmented memory will impact each of us in our own way. We all live unique lives and experiences. These make our memories and fragmented memories unique to us as individuals. In my lived experience, my fragmented memory … Continue reading
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Tagged Chilchood, Fragmented, healing, Memory, mental-health, ptsd, Recovered memory, repressed memory, Trauma
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Yes we do! Sorry for your experience, hopefully by talking about how these experiences impact us, we can create change,…