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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis: two things to learnView
This weekend, actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have been criticised for letters of support that they wrote for friend and fellow actor Danny Masterson, sent to a judge following Masterson’s rape conviction. Kutcher and Kunis’s letters described Danny as an ‘excellent role model’ and an ‘amazing friend’. Masterson has …
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Pattern matching and our responseView
This is the third part of a blog series about trauma, pattern matching, and how it influences our responses to domestic abuse. You can catch up on part one here, and part two here. Previously in this series, we’ve explored how our brains work in the context of someone who …
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Pattern matching and domestic abuseView
This is the second part of a blog series about trauma, pattern matching, and how it influences our responses to domestic abuse. You can catch up on part one here. In part one of this series, we looked at Elizabet's story, and saw how the perpetrator of her abuse tried …
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Trauma responses: Elizabet's storyView
At Restored, we encourage people to always believe a disclosure of abuse, because the person disclosing has trusted you for a reason. But, it's known throughout the domestic abuse sector that perpetrators of abuse will often attempt to claim they are the one being abused, countering any disclosures made by …
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'Boundaries' vs 'Control'?View
This weekend, conversations began on social media about emotional abuse and coercive control, after screenshots were shared of texts from actor Jonah Hill to his ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady. Brady is a professional surfer, and Hill’s texts explain the 'boundaries' he’d like to set for their relationship: she shouldn’t surf with …
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Why don't we want to believe it?View
As more safeguarding failures within the Church hit the headlines, I am acutely aware of the experiences of so many within our Survivors’ Network. More than 500 women have found a safe space to be seen and heard within this community; the stories they share all too often are not …
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Father, forgive them...View
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34.Some of the most extraordinarily beautiful and yet challenging words in the Bible. In his hours of despair, in the agony of the cross, Jesus has the grace and the capacity to forgive those who have put …
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We need to talk about it...View
This last week I’ve been watching the documentary on BBC iPlayer called ‘We need to talk about Crosby’. It reminded me so much of a podcast series I listened to last year from Christianity Today called ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill,’ and another documentary about abuse within Hillsong …
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Joining the Dots: the link between suicide and domestic abuseView
trigger warning - suicide, domestic abuse Earlier this year there was a landmark inquest into the death of Jessica ‘Jessie’ Laverack which concluded that the “underlying cause of her illness [was] domestic abuse”.It is thought to be the first time that a coroner has explicitly connected domestic abuse and suicide. …
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My experience of sexism and misogynyView
Megan, aged 19 Today is the International Day of the Girl Child. To mark the occasion, we've asked university student Megan to write about her experience of sexism, and the challenges she and her friends face in navigating relationships and staying safe as young people. Here's what she had to …