Just back from USA and pretty much over my jet-lag! I had gone to Boston to support my survivor friend Helen who was in a documentary “Who takes away the sins” and asked me to go to it’s first showing. Great to meet her, after SKYPING and e mailing for…
I am so fed up with answering the same bloody questions about this wretched pope! The latest reporter to ask me to comment was today, about pope Francis and his “robust stand on child sexual abuse by the clergy.” PLEASE!!!!! There IS no new stance, Francis is just churning out…
It’s hard to think about all the myriad of ludicrous ideas that were crammed into my unprotected mind as I grew up in the superstitious fiercely catholic household, where everything but breathing was sinful. But as I reflect on the happenings of the last week,and I see the cardinal hold…
Hell in a handcart I have been waiting for some kind os inspiration before I talk about the popes resignation, and the latest cardinals scandal etc.etc. etc. I didn’t get any! I think my cynicism must get very much in the way of it! But I did have one thought.…
Sue Cox co- founder Survivors Voice Europe Founder-Director SMART-UK January 2013 The Physiology of Addiction –The implications for childhood sexual abuse victims I write in my capacity as founder and director of a large substance misuse training organisation called SMART-UK . During my 35 years of working and teaching in…
An Open letter regarding the removal of Jimmy Savile’s “papal knighthood” Dear Sirs, It is with a wry, arched eyebrow that I read that Vincent Nichols has decided to write to Rome to ask that the papal knighthood be removed for Jimmy Savile and that in response Frederico Lombardi has…
Sunday, 21 October 2012 The season of grief Today I feel like shit, it is nothing that anyone can do, nothing indeed that I can do, it is just one of those days when the thick unpenetrable armour that I usually wear must be in the wash! Everything around me…
It would be very easy for every survivor-focused organisation to jump on the very unpalatable and horrific bandwagon that is the Jimmy Savile/BBC et al saga to highlight their particular cause – I am sure they all will, and so will we! It is vital to use such a high…
Some people are just meant to be on the “outside”! For most of my adult life, I have been looking for a place to belong, I have always felt somewhat “homesick” although for what I couldn’t say.I always envied people who knew exactly who they were, where they came from,…
Could there BE anything worse? I am reeling today from a shock to my system! This morning’s work was to gather more research to further demonstrate the severity of brain damage to clergy sexual abuse survivors, largely to add to our workshop “Brains Bombs and Baddies “. We know a…
