The Flying Child (CIC)

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[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

I OPENED THE BOX! 🌸🎉

(With a little help) 🐶 🐱

Thank you all for your support and kind comments. I’m feeling all emotions. Will take a while to sink in but I’ve done it. It’s done. Here it is. After all that - my story:

The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults

Available for pre order.
Coming on 12/02/24
Book launch in London 20/02/24

Details coming soon.

#TheFlyingChildStory #ACautionaryFairyTale #ACautionaryTale #csa #childsexualabuse #booklaunch #newbook @ZunTold @shme_bbk

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@olivia_mai66 We don’t use this platform as much now but you can find us elsewhere. Will continue to upload blogs (have done so today)

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

Latest blog on #TheFlyingChild

“By all means, tell me it’s an option not to carry that shame. That, I might need to hear. But don’t tell me I ‘shouldn’t’ or ‘mustn’t’ feel it, as that would be a bit, well…shaming.”

https://t.co/32rAUNxb9d

#CSA #shame #unshame

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@JonjayNeedham1 Just as I popped in to see your posts! I miss the old Twitter…

[Clare Lavery (@clerotto.bsky.social) @clerotto]

@TheFlyingChild 🫂Brave
Important for people to understand this

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@clerotto Thank you for reading x

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

“This is not a blog to debate whether or not survivors of #CSA within the family should cut off contact with their families. It’s a post to acknowledge that neither decision is easy. Both come with challenges - mainly a huge amount of sadness or grief.

https://t.co/c62uPy8Ly0

[Clare Lavery (@clerotto.bsky.social) @clerotto]

A reminder of a favourite piece

Never underestimate the Butterfly effect
Systems change is a process
The flaps of their wings can travel over mountains
Invisible threads of connection bind us
One small touch of a hand

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

Thank you to the survivor community for your support this year. Please take a moment to read our ‘Year in Review.’ We couldn’t do this work without this support. Thank you 🌸 #CSA

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@WebsterLor76367 Thank you for sharing this. These are decisions no child - however old - should be forced to make. 🌸♥️

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@finding_hope_2 🌸💕

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[Jules F @JulieFo45651979]

Another wonderfully written piece, which exactly sums up the mixed feelings arising at Christmas time for survivors of #csa .

[PXP @pigeonxphoenix]

Ive been saying this a lot recently.

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

Please check out our new Events page on the website 🌸

https://t.co/hH2l8jmEfZ

#TheFlyingChild #supportSurvivors

[Jules F @JulieFo45651979]

@TheFlyingChild It was, they finally spoke to my isva about it, told her it was best if I spoke to a therapist instead. I'd just spent a year in therapy which gave me the confidence to report it. All I hoped was to give police a name and tell them what he'd done, it made me feel silenced again.

[Patrick Mills @PatrickEMills]

I think he enjoyed the power trip.

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@finding_hope_2 So hard to comprehend. I’m sorry this happened to you. Trauma upon trauma

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

If you are a survivor of CSA, what is the least trauma-informed thing a professional has said to you?

A therapist once told me “there’s no point in looking back, you’re an adult now - not a child.” (I just told her I wanted to talk about my childhood)

#traumainformed #CSA

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@barefoothopes I’m so sorry 😔

[AA Gribben 🌎⚖️ @TonyGribben3]

Least trauma-informed thing a professional has said to a survivor?

‘God forgives you for your sins’. A Catholic nun and professional counsellor to a man multiply-raped as a child by a Catholic priest.

Counsellor engaged by Diocese of Dromore, Newry, N. Ireland.

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@TonyGribben3 What a terrible thing to say. Thank you for sharing this

[The Flying Child (CIC) @TheFlyingChild]

@PatrickEMills This is horrendous.