I was 26 in 2007 when I became a probation officer in London, and that’s when I started training in domestic violence (DV). I started working with offenders who were on probation for abusing their wives, and the first guy I supervised and took through a domestic violence program 1:1 said to me “what’s the world coming to when a man can’t push his wife around?” He was dead serious. 😳 DV wasn’t talked about back then like it…
Over the last couple of years, the content I’ve been putting out has focused much more on educating people about unhealthy, toxic and abusive relationships (whatever label you decide to put on it). With that has come an abundance of trolls – plenty of fake accounts leaving shite comments on my posts. GOOD. 😂 My coaches have always taught me to celebrate the haters, because it means I’m getting somewhere. There’s a growing army of people out there (men…
I was listening to a powerful TED Talk today about the power of forgiveness (which, if you’re followed me for a while, you know I like to bang on about this topic, and did a video interview about how forgiveness has transformed my life which you can watch here). WOW. This is an incredible story about the power of forgiveness. Warning: this isn’t for the fainthearted but this is Sammy Rangel’s story of being severely abused by his…