Taking Our Lives Back One Step at a Time 100 Mile Challenge

Survivors voice 🗣: 

 I was so nervous to start the ‘back to me group’ with TDAS because it was in person and I’d never actually talked about my abuse in person. My abuse wasn’t about violence, it was coercion, control and financial so I felt like it was hard to explain because it was lots of small things that added up. Because of this I was constantly second guessing myself as my judgement had been slowly eroded over time. One of the biggest moments for me - my post separation abuse had gotten worse and I spoke about an incident that had happened, and for the first time I didn’t have to explain myself - they all totally got it - called it what is was - controlling abuse - I will remember that moment forever because it was so liberating- I wasn’t crazy - these women had been through it and they KNEW- they understood. This one moment changed everything for me - it helped me to firstly accept that I’m a survivor of DA and has enabled me to talk about it with the people around me, name it and start to rebuild my life. I’ll be forever grateful 🙏 

64.15 miles outstanding 🚶🏻‍♀🚶🏾‍♀🚶🏿‍♀🚶🏽‍♀🚶🏼‍♀

Survivors Voice 🗣:
When I met my ex partner the thing he liked most about me (so he said) was my creativity, my love of art, my sense of style and my bright green eye shadow…over time he began to mock my love of colour and my passion for crafts, when I took on additional projects at work creating displays, drawing on windows and producing hand drawn posters he mocked me and said I was distracting myself from my ‘real’ job, slowly but surely over the course of nearly 2 decades he did his best to try and drain all the colour from my world..

Walking with the ladies and rediscovering my sense of self has revived my passion for creativity and brought colour back into my life, through our adventures discovering new places, the walks seeing the spring flowers emerge, the opportunity to draw again and create our logo, my life feels richer and more vibrant than before and one step at a time slowly but surely I feel a little bit more like me again 💜💚 thank you ladies for reintroducing me to myself again 💜💚

74.922 outstanding 🚶🏻‍♀🚶🏾‍♀🚶🏿‍♀🚶🏽‍♀🚶🏼‍♀