“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and just wanted to prescribe medication, but I could still build a good, supportive relationship… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
