“I am changed. I am changed. No point in denying it, I really am changed. I guess that’s okay.”
I once was one person, now I am someone else entirely…
“I was once someone else. Life doesn’t have to be anything specific or ‘special’ to be wonderful, it only need be safe. I know that now.”
“It was once a hammock I’d lay in at least once a year, now I sit with ocean sounds turned on, and remember… all that is left is remembering…”
“Time will not heal all things, but it will give one an opportunity to grow around the pain.”
“I used to love to cook, to bind flavour, colour and texture into one. Now I read ingredients lists because I have no energy, and say a prayer that the manufacturer is ethical and safe.”
“I remain grateful for hot running water and clean drinking water.“
“Making sure as few toxins as possible entered my body became even more vital when traumatic experiences became unavoidable.”
“I enjoy a walk when I can, when I can muster the motivation, energy and determination. Nature is still my favourite home.”
Has your health, safety and known way of life been devastated by an absence of legislated government service intervention?
The Ana Maria Foundation and Faith in Change Publishing are counting the damages, we encourage you to count your own too! Do explore the following UK based projects as starting points: Advocacy and Social Wellbeing Projects; Manifesto for Change; Collective Social Anthology; Letters to The World; The Self-Help Library (which presents an opportunity to Donate Your Service, should you be a healer of some kind).
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