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The Mental Toll of Childhood Trauma Across Life Stages

Understanding the psychological impact of trauma requires both evidence and lived truth. This piece blends academic research with my personal journey through childhood trauma, showing how early experiences shape the body, mind, and identity over time. By placing theory alongside … Continue reading

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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors

Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading

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Utilizing Recovered Memories

I thought I would post more about my experience of memory recovery, and how it worked for me. First I will touch on the fact that repression of memories doesn’t happen on its own. It happens because care givers around … Continue reading

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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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