08/08/2026
I was going to say can all of my followers please do me a favour but actually it’s not about doing me a favour. It’s about standing with women and doing women and children a favour.
I’m struggling and I’ve been struggling for a few weeks now. I just keep hearing more and more stories about children being abused and women being murdered. I’ve born witness to these stories for over 3 decades and it gets harder and harder. The stories reported by the media of yet another woman or child being abused or murdered happen just about every single day. We all have to own it.
So here’s the thing, I wrote The Anatomy of Domestic Violence: Emily’s Story to try to make a difference. To educate the community. To encourage people not to ask why doesn’t she leave but to ask why does he use violence? The best thing we can do is to try educate our circles of influence. So many people don’t know what they can do so in the last chapter of Anatomy I wrote a massive long list. It feels like it’s an exhaustive list but it isn’t. The things on that list are just the things that were front and centre of my mind.
So here’s what you can do:
Write to your local MP and express your concern and ask them what they personally are doing to end violence against women and children.
Raise money for the women and children’s refuge in your area.
Talk about it with your friends, family and neighbours.
The other thing you can do, and I say this cautiously because I really don’t want this to come across as me selling my own book as a way to make money, because tbh, unless your name happens to be JK Rowling, authors get a minuscule amount in royalties. I didn’t become an author to make money, I became an author to continue to give back to the community. So what I would like you to do is one of the following:
Go into your local library and request The Anatomy of Domestic Violence: Emily’s Story. That means the library will need to get it in. That means it will be on the shelves for other people to read. That means more people will learn about Domestic Violence.
Go into your local bookstore or Big W or wherever that sells books and ask them to stock it.
Buy a copy, read it and then hand it on to someone else and ask them to hand it on to someone else and so on.
Buy a copy and gift it to someone else, if you’ve already got a copy.
If you know someone who you think really needs a copy of it and you/they can’t afford it, message me and I will send them a copy for free.
If you know or think of someone who is influential who could do with reading the book, let me know. If you are influential and I’ve already sent you the book, please read it, talk about it and pass it on.
If you’ve purchased Anatomy on Amazon or Kindle, please write a review and encourage others to buy it or read it. If you haven’t purchased a book via Amazon, go onto Good Reads or my website and post a review.
I fully believe we can stop domestic violence but we all have to take responsibility for our part. It’s going to take everyone working together to change this.
As always, thank you and please share my posts. If we’re going to beat the ridiculous social media algorithms, I need all my followers to share my posts. And if you’re on LinkedIn, I would particularly appreciate you sharing them there. I have been permanently banned from LinkedIn for talking about violence against women and children, as have several of my colleagues who work in DV Advocacy.
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