Press Release – Shakti Community Council On Saturday 29 May 2021, approximately 400 people gathered to attend Ragas Of Devi Presents: Shakti, a musical fundraiser in aid of Shakti Community Council Inc. held at Mt Eden War Memorial Hall. The event organized by survivor and musician …
On Saturday 29 May 2021, approximately 400 people gathered to attend ‘Ragas Of Devi Presents: Shakti’, a musical fundraiser in aid of Shakti Community Council Inc. held at Mt Eden War Memorial Hall. The event organized by survivor and musician Ms. Devi Sobhana, alongside professional and self-trained musicians showcased how
ragas or classical tunes could bring together not only different musical genres but also diverse communities to promote the cause of ending family violence.
Warning: Some people may find aspects of this story distressing
The Eating Disorder Association is furious about comments from a mental health specialist who said patients sometimes adapt to their disorder over time, labelling it dangerous .
Canterbury District Health Board s general manager of specialist mental health Greg Hamilton told RNZ in April people with eating disorders sometimes adapt to it over time , and are discharged if extensive treatment doesn t work for them.
Eating Disorder Association (EDANZ) chairperson Nicki Wilson had one thing to say about that. Rubbish! We don t do that with any other illness.
Treatment has moved on extensively in recent years, and the public system cannot simply put people in the too hard basket, she said.
When her parents split up she had to take over her mother s role. In every aspect of a mother, a wife or whatever the f he called it, meaning that he sexually abused me first by just touching, doing that sort of shit to me. I knew, even as a kid that that shouldn t be happening to me.
She told her mother what her father was doing but she didn t believe her. She beat me to a pulp from head to toe, Ryder said. She said to me if I tell anybody that she would kill me and I had to say that I fell out of a tree playing.
Warning: This story contains references to suicide and rape, and may be triggering for some readers.
A Kiwi woman advocating on behalf of sexual violence survivors says eight years on after her own assault, she still carries mental and physical trauma.
Laura Eustace, 25, today uses social media to have really hard conversations in a hope to support others through her own experience. Throughout my life, there has been a lot of trauma I have gone through I felt no one really talked about, Eustace tells Newshub. It s become a passion project for me to talk about these things because for a very long time I felt very ashamed.