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 …