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8th August 2014This is still my dream for my golden years, though now it’s in a campervan, not a boat and involves a trailer full of LEGOWhat’s your dream? 8th August 2014 When I am old, well not old; that age where your children have flown the nest but you’re not yet an old lady. …
2nd May 2014One little Piggy When I was about seven my mum and dad took me into our local branch of Natwest to open a children’s savings account. Anyone over a certain age will remember that as you saved up with Natwest you were rewarded with piggy banks until you had a whole family. Well …
Psalm 56 was crucial to me during my recovery and now it is a part of one of the sessions in the Always Hopeful Recovery programme Tuesday, 1 April 2014 Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;all day long an attacker oppresses me;my enemies trample on me all day long,for many …
Tuesday, 25 March 2014A year on from escaping abuse I was rediscovering what peace meant.Eight years later I still have the Christmas decorations I put up later that year on my wall, one says Peace, the other says Joy. They remind me never to take those things that I now enjoy for granted. Here’s the …
In March 2014 Always Hopeful was born. It started out as a blog. I hoped that telling my story would help others to escape and rebuild their lives free of abuse. In truth, it probably helped me more than it helped others. I was still raw, so early into my recovery: It had only been …