***Content warning: Graphic descriptions of domestic abuse and suicide***

Martyn and Ruth talk about her horrific experiences of domestic abuse when she was younger. She describes how easily she became the subject of the darkness of generational abuse due to her naivety, and how difficult it was to escape. She talks about the additional struggle with Endometriosis and how she was later diagnosed with PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder), a consequence of bio-psycho trauma she holds in her body for years after the abuse ended. She is the personification of how bathing darkness with light can soothe such horrific abuse, and has found healing through community and her love of fitness and yoga.

Links from the episode:



https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help

Women Out West - https://www.facebook.com/womenoutwestcumbria

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle https://g.co/kgs/xCAVw8

Endometriosis - https://www.endometriosis-uk.org/ending-endometriosis-starts-saying-it

PMDD - https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/premenstrual-dysphoric-disorder-pmdd/getting-a-pmdd-diagnosis/

http://www.westcoastyogastudio.co.uk/

Ruth's Yoga group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/450586498659278/?ref=share

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