Finding Your Voice with...Social Silence: Recent Episodes
Zara Skidmore & Laura Bentley
Social Silence podcast, the show that discusses and challenges health and wellbeing inequalities, by providing a platform to organisations and services supporting those affected whilst encouraging the sharing of personal journeys in a supportive community…. Helping you to find your voice and to break the social silence.
Welcome to the last episode in this series of Social Silence.
Join us as we talk about grief and loss, listening to Laura's own personal journey following the loss of her beloved mum.
Laura talks about the sadness she experienced with losing a loved one and how she used her personal pain and adversity to fuel her internal power, which led to the creation of Dragonfly Wellness as part of her own transformation and growth to allow her to live a more fulfilling and authentic life. Taking a breath, discovering her true purpose and finding her voice to break the social silence.
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Today we will be releasing our 5th Podcast of Social Silence, in which we are joined by the beautiful soul Valerie Lolomari to discuss her advocacy against FGM, and the creation of her organisation Women of Grace. Valerie is passionate about raising both awareness and survivors of FGM. Listen now and discover how she allowed her pain and suffering to become her superpower and how she found her voice to help break the silence!
Visit Women of Grace to find our more about the organisation and its service by visiting Facebook via https://www.facebook.com/WomenofGraceUK or @womenofgraceuk on Instagram.
Visit www.bishopswellbeing.org to find out more about our organisation, the support we provide or how you can help us to break the Social Silence.
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Join us for our Fourth Episode of Social Silence where we are joined by Dan from Ataxia UK and Barry who is living with an Ataxia condition.
Join us and discover more information about this rare condition and how Ataxia affects daily life, and the associated discrimination people with Ataxia face due to the main symptoms of their condition and societal judgement.
To find out more about ataxia please visit: https://www.ataxia.org.uk/
To find more information about us at Bishops Wellbeing visit our website-
https://www.bishopswellbeing.org/
Join us as we welcome Norma Symonds, a local town Councillor and advocate for those experiencing inequalities in our community.
We will be talking about the great work and support she provides, in her relentless quest to advocate and find solutions for those in crisis.
Norma shares her own experiences of living in crisis and her journey to overcoming trauma and addiction. Finding her path with purpose and her voice to break the Social Silence.
To find our all that the East Herts council has to offer visit their their website-
https://www.eastherts.gov.uk/
To find more information about us at Bishops Wellbeing visit our website-
https://www.bishopswellbeing.org/
Join us for our second episode of Social Silence, where we are joined by Chelle from Stort Pride, who provides a passionate insight of their journey to finding themselves. As well as discussing their role as founder and advocate for helping others in the local and wider community to finding themselves and their voice breaking the Social Silence.
Find your voice with...Social SIlence.
Introducing Social Silence, a series of weekly podcasts co-hosted by Zara Skidmore and Laura Bentley that challenges health and social inequalities in our community. During the covid pandemic, it is well documented that there has been a rise in health inequalities with social determinants widening the gap between those affected. The social, political, economic, cultural, environmental and physical contexts all have implications for power relations; directly impacting socially marginalised people’s ability to exercise their voice and to be heard.
When a person feels as though the whole world is against them, they see no point in speaking up. When society blames everything and everyone but the abuser or perpetrators, the person affected will not speak up.
We need to do better as a society. People need to feel safe to speak up. No individual affected by inequalities or abuse should ever fear speaking out! Every individual deserves the chance to Thrive and break the Social Silence!
Join us as we welcome Siobhan from Red Kite Recovery from rape and sexual abuse support service. We will be talking about the great work and support they provide, demystifying any misconceptions about accessing the services for support, whilst considering the negative impact sexual abuse and rape crimes have on an individual's mental health and well-being, and how with the support they can not just survive but thrive!