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Getting Sober at a Young Age is a Wonderful Thing (Ben’s story)
I grew up in a nice town in South Florida, was fortunate enough to have both parents in my life and give me every opportunity to succeed. I did good in school, had plans to become a teacher after I graduated college, everything about my childhood was great, on the outside at least. I always felt different, I always felt like I missed some kind of class all my other peers attended on how to grow up and be happy
Listening to my Experience of Sexual Abuse at Work: Rape, Grooming, Sexual Harassment and Injustice CONTENT WARNING
Editor’s note: If you have experienced sexual abuse, or have experienced victim-blaming, the following post could be triggering.
Don’t take my voice away.
I am writing this open letter because I want people to understand what abuse feels like, from my point of view anyway. I want people to know that you can’t “Just tell someone” I told and I want to make you aware that it doesn’t make it all better. In fact, for me and many other victims, it made things 100 times worse.
CITYFIBRE CHARITY DAY – IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT THE GARDENING!
Last week the PMO Internal Strategic Programme team spent our Charity Day at MK Snap, a Milton Keynes (MK) charity for adults with learning disabilities. I genuinely can’t say enough good things about the experience: the fact that we get paid to go and support a charity of our choice;
Driving Anxiety
It took me four times to pass my driving test, during one of them I saw my examiner literally gripping on to the car door for dear life. In another of my test I managed to get three of my wheels on the other side of the road, in fairness
Wild swimming helped me to overcome agoraphobia and generalised anxiety
Wild swimming, and in particular, getting into the sea, is an incredibly important part of my life. Whilst I’ve always loved swimming, it has only been during the last couple of years that I have realised how immense the benefits are and how integral it is to my wellbeing. After
Racism in North Devon – Dee’s Story
I was relentlessly bullied through pretty much every school year. It all started with taunts about my hair in Primary school, growing up in a little Devon village I was the only brown kid through most of my time there.
Leaving Cornwall after 44 years
I had always assumed I would end my days in Penzance. I’d lived there since 1977; brought up our two children there, seen three grandchildren born there; and seen them all leave the county. So, there was just my wife and I living in a largish Victorian house which was turning into a money pit as the demands of maintenance increased and my physical abilities decreased. Following a chance remark by our son in August 2020 that he wished we lived nearer to him (in Somerset) we found ourselves in a maelstrom of emotional and practical “stuff” as we contemplated moving.
I Too Am the Face of Addiction
I’ve never met a person struggling with substance abuse that wasn’t fighting it in some way. Addiction is a destructive illness that divorces parts of the brain from itself and suspends the sufferer in a constant state of self-battle.
Volunteering on a Construction Site in Central America
I have just landed back in the UK after living in Guatemala for a month. I volunteered on a local project for three weeks and left some time at the end to explore the country. Despite my best efforts on a popular language learning app and four group lessons before
Embracing my Non-Binary Identiy
I never really felt different growing up, which is weird cause I was certainly bullied for it. Fuckin kids man, world class ability to detect and trigger insecuritieis in others, gotta hand it em. I always thought of myself as normal, or whatever close approximation seems most apt.