Never Feeling Safe

I never felt safe as a child. For years I slept under my bed feeling alone in this world. Never Feeling Safe: Another Person Abused is my true life story. I was sexually and emotionally abused by the hands of many of my relatives and I charged them when I was a child. Being abused affected my deepest core. Every part of my body and psyche was hurt and affected. I share with you my childhood experience of charging my relatives for abusing me, being a teenage runaway and living in shelters and feeling immobilized by my deepest fears. I share how I triumphed over depression, bulimia, isolation, guilt, shame, anger and mistrust with specific tools you can apply to your life. I am on a journey to find happiness and emotional freedom, journey with me, one moment at a time. Find Hope and be inspired.

Never Feeling Safe: Another Person Abused is my true life story. Everyone has a story and Never Feeling Safe is mind. I was sexually, psychologically, physically and emotionally abused by the hands of many of my relatives when I was a child growing up in Newfoundland. I charged my relatives for abuse when I was a child. Being abused affected my deepest core. Every part of my body and psyche felt destroyed at the precious age of seven. I couldn't control the family I was born into. I share with you my childhood experience of going to court alone, being a teenage runaway and living in shelters and feeling immobilized by my deepest fears. I share how I suffered from depression, bulimia, isolation, guilt, shame, no confidence, anger and mistrust. I also share about how I am today. Today I am a successful Registered Palliative Care, have made a difference in my community, volunteered as a nurse in Africa and today I not only have healthy values and confidence but I have forgiveness, trust in humanity and healthy relationships. Never Feeling Safe is about never giving up on hope. Find Hope and be inspired.

Cindy O’Brien was born in 1971 in St. John’s Newfoundland. She was educated at University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She has her degree in nursing and is currently a Registered Palliative Care Nurse in Hamilton, Ontario. Never Feeling Safe is her first book and has been many years in the making. The idea for Never Feeling Safe started with an image in her head of "a young child who was afraid to sleep at night.” To find out more about Cindy O’Brien, please visit www.neverfeelingsafe.com