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Post: Broken, Fixed, Broken, Re-Built

Well, well, well look whos back after months of hiding in the shadows, firstly ill start this post with an update of whats been happening (in no paticular order);

  • Moved into new house with Kirsty and baby Reece (who is now 6 months old)
  • I am awaiting or internet and phoneline to be hooked up currently i can only get online when i go up to my mums house
  • Just finished reading a book called Broken (more on that later)
  • Im due a promotion at work, just gotta fill out a form, have a meeting and then im done!
  • Im moving shops as of next week, i will now be working over the west end and just around the corner from madam tussauds
  • Ive updated this site so that it is now running the latest version of wordpress.
Anyways that a brief version of my last couple of months now for the most recent.
Ive just finished reading a book called Broken (i read it for a week straight).
Synopsis
‘I was born and broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed and ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim - that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix - a work in progress. This is my story.’ Shy wasn’t meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. She would have boiling water poured over her in punishment for wetting the bed. And virtually every day, from the age of four, Shy was raped by her stepfather, Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field, her skull fractured. Six years ago her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan and his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror - stealing to survive on the streets of London, prison and a suicide bid. Today, Shy is the internationally admired chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors, the campaigning group she founded with Sara Payne to fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. They have worked tirelessly with politicians, social services, the legal system and the media for justice for victims of child sex abuse. BROKEN is the most hard-hitting memoir of overcoming abuse you will ever read. It is both a challenge and an inspiration.
From this book alone i have learnt that nothing is impossible and that no matter what is chucked (or in some cases forced) upon us WE ALL have the strength to get through to the other side, some of us can do it on our own, some of us will need help from someone else and some of us will not feel complete until we have shared the goodness that we have been shown with someone else.
For me i have survived on my own for the most part, until recently i had blocked everyone and everything out, until recently i decided on change, i decided that i wanted to share my life with Kirsty, it was hard, it made me cry, it hurt inside to think about, however i did it (not in too much detail tho) and i now feel a little better.
I am happier in life when compared to a few years ago, however i dont know whether i will be fully complete. I do however feel parts of me mending when i am given the chance of helping someone else who is being broken and in need of help.
My dream is to be able to allow my kindness and good heart shine through and help everyone i can and then have the ones ive helped pass on the kindness that was shown to them to help someone else, and so on. 
Anyways i would recommend this book to anyone, another good book that i have recently read is ‘Daddys little earner‘, yet another childhood stolen, fixed and on its way to being rebuilt.
Hope all are ok? and Katie after our talk the other week i have decided that mycyc.com will be staying open for all to use.
P.S. for anyone that has read or been affected by this book or simply wants to know more, you can visit the authors homepage here.

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3 Responses to “Broken, Fixed, Broken, Re-Built”

  1. annonymousgirl Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    hey!
    cant believe ur lil ones 6months old feels like yesterday u said he was just born!! how is he? n the new parents?:P
    that book looks supa interesting im goingt to buy a copy!
    btw my names mya, thought id be a little less annonymous lol

    hope alls well mya xx

  2. annonymousgirl Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 6:59 am

    btwwwww i also checked out ur facebook and i have to say your son is soooo gorgus!! and i absolutllllllyyyyy love him in the chelsea top!!

  3. Katie Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    wheyy, i’m glad you’re keeping My CYC (:
    mya is right, it only seems like yesterday your son was born.
    the book does look very interesting.. i might just have to go and buy it.
    it’s good to hear from you (:
    ♥

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