I am listening to Anna Maria Tremonti’s podcast, “Welcome to Paradise,”
the story of her experience as an abused wife. She and her therapist
speak and we hear her story that includes also her recovery. So dramatic. This podcast
is such a service in the struggle against violence against women.
I know the therapist, Farzana Doctor, as another author. My respect for her,
already there as such, is even higher now. My respect for both women, Anna
Maria Tremonti and Farzana Doctor is immense.
This is a hard story to hear, but we need to hear it.
I worked for 20 years until 2002 as a telephone crisis counsellor on the
Assaulted Women’s Helpline. So many women suffer and suffered in silence –
the line supported (and supports ) them to recognize they weren’t (aren’t) to
blame – and on from that. This podcast captures it all. Take strength from it,
from this woman, Tremonti, we know to be so competent and strong. She escaped, she
recovered. But it took years of agony before she created this podcast. So brave.
Bravo!
