Believer in others. Trauma informed. Supporter of Live Well Leeds Touchstone and WorkPlaceLeeds Leeds Mind. my views .
Leeds, England.. previously Oz
Joined May 2015
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Heather young retweeted
I know these children. It is SO WRONG their childhoods are destroyed, yet THEIR compensation is insignificant compared to legal aid paid to lawyers representing these monsters! 😡
Rochdale grooming gang cost taxpayers more than £2million in legal aid dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Heather young retweeted
Trauma recovery is consistently swapping out "I can't do this" for "I'm struggling to do this right now, but I'm gonna give myself the time & space & grace I need with it."
Self-talk isn't the whole ball game, but it's one of our frontline recovery tools. Don't sleep on it.
Heather young retweeted
'What I've realised over this story is that there's almost an architecture of suppression'
Nadine Dorries speaks about the resignation of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury after a report found the Church of England covered up sexual abuse by a barrister.
Heather young retweeted
Nadine Dorries has said her experience of being abused by a Church of England vicar as a child "ruined" her life
She tells @SophyRidgeSky: 'I think the big sadness for me is that I never discussed it with my husband'
#PoliticsHub trib.al/ftpea6d
Heather young retweeted
He MUST be forced out.
He has no morality and no credibility.
This is intolerable. If he won't go he should be arrested for admitting to covering up a heinous crime.
King Charles is the head of the church and now needs to speak. – at Aberavon, Wales
Heather young retweeted
It defies belief. He aided and abetted a paedophile & swept it under the carpet. He should lose his job & all the benefits that accompany it; be charged & prosecuted, then imprisoned 🤬
Heather young retweeted
How can someone admit to covering up child abuse & retain their job?
Archbishop @JustinWelby has apologised for covering up for paedophile John Smyth QC who abused 130 boys. He could have been convicted 10 years ago.
You really need to resign.
news.sky.com/story/archbisho…
Heather young retweeted
To those saying comments like "oh good more money for those who contribute nothing" - check ur facts!
40% of UC claimants are the working poor others are carers, have disabilities or illness, & some who don't have work, want it. A little more compassion & less judgement wouldn't hurt.
Just spotted.... this is a good change for benefits recipients, deductions can be soul-destroying. #budget
"Caps deductions made through Universal Credit at 15% of the standard allowance. Before this Budget, it was 25%... approximately 1.2 million households will keep more of their Universal Credit payment each month, with households expected to be better off by an average of over £420 a year"
Heather young retweeted
On behalf of trauma survivors everywhere: yes, we too are sick of hearing about our trauma. We're sick of hearing it from the inside of our goddamn head-- & also seeing it in our dreams, feeling it in our body, & wrestling w/ it in our relationships.
We agree, it's exhausting.
Heather young retweeted
Ten years ago, Claire’s two sons were murdered by her ex-husband during an unsupervised family court visit. A decade later, Claire is still pushing for change. Sign her petition today and help make family courts a safer place for women and children. ✍️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
Please help protect children from known domestic abusers you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
Heather young retweeted
TW DWP
If you're being migrated from ESA to Universal Credit and are asked to provide fit notes or sign a claimant commitment, contact Citizens Advice or a similar as soon as possible. You should be moved directly to something called LCWRA, but the DWP is making errors. Jay X
Heather young retweeted
Speaking in court today Gisele Pelicot shared a message to women who have been the victim of rape and sexual assault, saying: “It's not for us to have shame - it's for them".
SHERO 💜 #GiselePelicot @thecrimeanalyst
Heather young retweeted
I must implore the women of the world that the surveillance, control and erasure of Afghan women will not be contained in Afghanistan.
It will spread. This implicates all of us.
Because if laughing, chatting is illegal in Afghanistan, it can be anywhere else.
Heather young retweeted
In 2019, following my London Rape Review, I called on the criminal justice system to fully understand the impact of trauma on memory and recall - from guidance to jurors, to training for CPS, judiciary and Bar Council. It’s clear progress has been too slow bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dj…
