Part 1 Lived Experience – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
At least 96% of people who have been sexually abused as children were known to their abuser. Chris and Barbara discuss the fact that most of the time a child's abuser is known to them.
Part 2 Lived Experience – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
Chris and Barbara discuss the resilience and strength of survivors and reiterate that victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse did nothing wrong.
Part 1 Justice Seeking – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
Barbara and Chris discuss the reasons they chose to seek justice via the legal system, and the importance of being believed and having your trauma recognised.
Part 2 Justice Seeking – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
Barbara and Chris Coombe, offer general tips to prepare survivors who want to come forward. They emphasise that no survivor should feel pressured to share their story.
Part 3 Justice Seeking – Survivors Experiences with Barb & Chris
Chris Coombes and Barbara know that survivors need to feel seen, and acknowledge that people decide to commence legal action for different reasons.
Part 4 Justice Seeking – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
Chris Coombes and Barbara discuss the process and length of going through the civil legal system when seeking justice.
Ongoing Impacts of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Survivor Experiences with Barb & Chris
Barbara and Chris discuss the traumatic impacts and interpersonal, professional and personal barriers caused by childhood sexual abuse.
Ongoing Impacts of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Part 2 – Survivors Experiences with Barb & Chris
Chris and Barbara, discuss the ongoing impacts of childhood sexual abuse. They acknowledge that there is no linear path.
Legacy – Survivors Experiences with Barb & Chris
1 in 3 adults say they would not believe a child if they disclosed sexual abuse. Barbara and Chris discuss the importance of showing up for, and believing, children when they share trauma.
Healing on the Govvy Dime – Chris Coombes’ poem
Our Lived Experience Lead, Chris Coombes, shares his poem about his own experience as a child that he wrote while applying for Redress.
The Littlest Flower – written by Wren Jennings, survivor of childhood abuse
There’s no “right” way to tell your story. At Knowmore, we honour every survivor’s story — however it is told.
Aunty Glendra & Chris Coombes talk lived experience
Aunty Glendra, and Chris Coombes discuss the importance of lived experience at Knowmore
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