Yvonne's Blog

I always use to find the Christmas period quite challenging. It stemmed back from my childhood. As a child pre-abuse, I loved Christmas...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited as a guest on Starr radio show ‘black women talking’. Roz, the presenter of the...

This month the Daughter Arise support group turned 4 years old. When I started this group back in October 2014 it was the first of its...

In this blog post, Niki Fayase ex- Training Manager for Mosac, a charity that supports non-abusing parents and carers of sexually abused...

Daughter Arise recently turned 7 years old on Wednesday 11th July and to celebrate we had a special themed support group called ‘reclaim...

Larry Nassar, ex U.S.A National and Olympic team physician was convicted on ten counts of sexually abusing minors. The damage that he...

Over the last 20 years, I have kept diaries that I journal in as a way of gathering my thoughts and to reflect on my progression through...

In January this year, I had the pleasure of writing a guest blog for Dawn Warwick, Director of Wandsworth Children Services. This blog...

On the evening of Thursday 8th February at 8.00pm, I received a text informing me that my Tedx talk had been released on youtube. I was...

As we come to the end of a new month in a new year, I wanted to share with you 5 things that has helped me become the woman I am today,...

I always like to finish my blog each year on a positive note. Whilst it is important to continue to raise awareness of sexual abuse and...

As an inspirational speaker, I have been sharing with audiences since June 2010 my experience of being sexually abused as a child and how...

Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Martin, CEO of Wandsworth and Richmond Council. It was an informative meeting, and I was...

I remember the first time I had to say a difficult goodbye. It was the day the social workers came to take me into government care at...

At the beginning of the year I wrote about the importance of setting goals and having something positive to focus on. I have found this...

Because of personal challenges and the injustice I experienced, for a long time I was angry and unappreciative about my life. I did not...

Last Saturday I shared my story of childhood sexual abuse and gave my testimony of how I was able to recover from its effects on the...

To find your voice is to find your strength It gives power to your soul, to tell the story of your journey No one can steal or take it...

It is easy to assume because you survived through the initial brutal battlefield of childhood abuse that once you become of age, the road...

It happened to me but it is not my identity It was my past but it is not my present or my future I was a product of its effects, but it...