Issues of the past effecting the future - Human Living Library

(Flickr, 2020)

Pearl Cove Library is hosting our annual Human Living Library, this years topic is Trauma. Here is an opportunity to meet and listen to people who have lived with trauma throughout their lives. Lets help squash stigma surrounding trauma and mental illness.

Our guests:

Michelle - A  woman who sufferers from trauma due to being held up at her first ever job at gun point, luckily she had taken 45,000 dollars to the bank an hour earlier and so the robbery was unsuccessful. Now however she has residual trauma from this and it even continues to have nightmares even now twenty years later.

Jeremy - Served in the defence force, since he was 18 years old. He was discharged from duty two years ago, and since then has struggled with civilian life, unable to find a suitable job or any kind of assistance from the defence to help him cope with his PTSD.

Kate - A child abuse survivor by the hand of her mother, emotional neglected and now estranged from her step-father. She has no contact with her birth-father or half sisters who live in another country. Kate was kicked out of home at 17 and has been homeless on and off for years, she now has extreme anxiety that has caused her to become physically ill.

Amy - An indigenous woman who is a psychologist who specialised in trauma, grief and loss, she has worked as a psychologist for almost 15 years, and found inspiration to get into that line of work because of her father who was taken as a part of the stolen generation.

Date: 28th of October 2020

Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Location: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Book Tickets here at Eventbrite, only 40 tickets available 

Further information can be found on trauma at Blue Knot Foundation

Please call lifeline at 13 11 14 if you feel you are at risk

Claire Bullen