I don’t know how to start off when talking about my life before Dr. Roz’s Healing Place. I met my husband in 1992 and started suffering his abuse in 1995 when I moved from Ethiopia to Canada. I had left him once before and ended up staying away for a period of six years. About three months before I went to Dr. Roz’s Healing Place, my

In 2006 my two children and I arrived in Canada. For the first two months our family was happy. After that my ex-husband started abusing me. I didn’t realize that it was abuse. I thought it was a crazy love. He was controlling me, checking on me every minute, calling constantly. When I was going outside with our kids, he was spying on me and telling

My husband abused me religiously, sexually, mentally, emotionally, verbally and physically. His whole family abused me and pulled my hair. He would He threw me on the bed, on the floor and against the wall. His sisters told him to beat me but to make sure that my body would not get any marks. He used to hang me by my ankles from the balcony and

By Jasmine, SURVIVOR I am from my dead father Who wanted to make me a lawyer I am from his prayers and hopes about his ‘son’ I am from my loving grandmom And from hugs and kisses, I am from prayer and recitations And from a dark and lonely house I am from a strict culture, Legal, illegal, boundaries and punishment, I am from the religious

Written by: Donna, SURVIVOR It makes me sad when you scream at me I try to figure out what makes you angry The challenge I take up most of my life Today I felt helpless, where are you? I am being ignored and left to die I have been talking in my mind – My God, what has happened to me? Now I have to rise