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Learn more about how Survive helps survivors of rape, sexual assault or child sexual abuse.
For the first time in my 35 years on this earth, I felt heard. Not only listened to but actually heard. I could finally breathe and it felt surreal, like I had never taken a breath before but I knew I wanted to feel it again and again as it felt amazing!
When I look in the mirror I can now really see myself again – it has taken more than 15 years to do this. Survive’s EMDR therapy has changed my life.
Life is a journey. The work done with Survive significantly eased the burden I felt and helped me move on in my journey forward.
I was referred to Survive by my mental health social worker. I had become too ill to work.
I enjoyed my work with my church. As a lady in my 70s, I also enjoyed the compliments received from one of the priests.
I was in my 40s when I reached crisis point and was unable to function. My trauma was so intense and severe that I had blocked it out.
I was a well-respected and hard-working professional yet I found it difficult to like myself. I could not tolerate anything I perceived as a mistake.
I was seven when I went to visit a friend of my parents. He sexually abused me before offering me some of his wife’s jewellery.
