Cindy O’Brien 
Never Feeling Safe 
Another Person Abused

Never Feeling Safe: Another Person Abusedis 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.