Posts Taggeddomestic abuse

Raising the game, mental health and our sporting heroes

The 2020 Olympics has been a triumph against the odds for the hosts, and for Team GB, but this event more than any also bought to the fore the mental health challenges the sporting elite face. Simone Biles supreme talent and unprecedented career success further crowned by her successfully beaming over Piers Morgan’s bile. No early adopter here, these recent testimonies made me finally sit…

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The Real Cost of Domestic Abuse

The disappearance and death of Sarah Everard in March this year has created a sense of grief, horror, and fear in us all. The seemingly random connection of Sarah as victim to her perpetrator, like Libby Squire before her, brings home the vulnerability women face in their daily lives, and the stark reality of gender-based crime committed by strangers, let alone those known and trusted…

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