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Helen
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A big thank you to Helen for sharing her experience. Helen completed a one to one Physical Empowerment course in 2023. Read her story below.
Hello, I’m Helen
In past relationships I have experienced controlling, possessive, abusive behaviours and physical violence.
Although outwardly being capable and sociable, I felt emotionally fragile and physically vulnerable. This resulted in me developing my life around my family, friends, hobbies and safe social activities. My emotional and physical security was built around a determination to NEVER have another relationship. And it worked, in the past few years I have become wholly happy with being me, living a fulfilling, independent life, with my mental, emotional and physical state intact on a day to day
basis.
And then I met Philippa!
A random conversation and a short exchange of relationship experiences, Philippa invited me to attend a 10-week self-defence course that she runs as part of her work in Physical Empowerment.
Not knowing what to expect, I turned up to my first one to one session with Philippa, and was surprised to learn that self defence was not just a physical skill to learn but also there was a mass of emotional and mental development available to work on too.
Over the weeks we have talked and explored many themes around emotional and mental self-defence, which have been an absolute revelation to me.
This has helped me gain a greater understanding and self-awareness around abusive situations and has enabled me to go from feeling emotionally fragile and vulnerable, to a sense of new-found self-respect and mental resilience.
There is also time to in the weekly sessions to learn and practice some effective physical self-defence techniques and personal safety strategies. These are surprisingly empowering and I feel that with continued training and practice that I could confidently defend myself from a physical attack, if the necessity arose.
I am so grateful to Philippa, for the work that she has done with me and privileged to have had the opportunity to undertake this very personal self-development with such an inspiring, capable and caring lady. She is a shining example of a 21st Century woman and I believe, from my own experience, that the impact of the self-defence classes that Philippa provides, is both liberating and life changing.
I now believe that I am worth protecting – and I will!
You can learn to protect yourself too!
Helen, November 2023