068 UNBROKEN - Finding your voice with Madeline Black | The power of forgiveness

This week, the inspirational Madeline Black joins The Unlocked podcast to share her deeply empowering and moving personal story. Violently gang-raped when she was thirteen years old, and raped three more times before the age of eighteen, Madeleine has experienced more trauma in her life than most ever will. Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took her years of struggle to confront the buried memories of that first attack and begin to undo the damage it wrought, as men continued to take advantage of her fragility in the worst possible way.

Yet, after growing up with a burden no teenager should ever have to shoulder, she found the heart to carry out the best revenge plan of all; leading a fulfilling and happy life. For Madeleine, forgiveness was the key. True forgiveness takes genuine effort. It takes a real desire to understand those who have done us so much harm. It is the ultimate act of courage.

As a survivor of sexual violence, Madeline Black is now on a mission to end the shame, stigma and silence surrounding sexual violence enabling others to find their voice, whatever their story is.

"I want people to know that it’s not what happens to us that is important but what we do with it."

In this episode, we UNLOCK...

• The power of forgiveness
• Why it's important to find your courage and your voice
• How to understand, we aren't defined by what knocks us down – we are defined by how we get back up.

This is a great episode and Madeline Black is an inspirational woman. Madeline has lots of great resources on her website and through her podcast that you can access on the link below.

 Visit Madeline Black 's website here

Buy Madeline Black's memoir, Unbroken, here

Listen to the UNBROKEN podcast show here 

Watch Madeline's latest TEDx Uni of Glasgow – “Why I’m Shaming Shame” 

And Madeline's TEDx Glasgow talk called – “Unbroken – Speaking The Unspeakable

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