To my beautiful friends and family! 

For my birthday this year I have decided to set up a fundraiser for a charity that is very near and dear to my heart. I have been privileged to work with them when I have been searching for support for young people who suffered immense childhood traumas and had fallen through the cracks of the mental health system countless times. These youth with were incredibly strong, resilient, beautiful people and just needed a holistic and safe space to heal from their trauma and realise their strengths. Body and Soul offered this space and I can honestly say that their work saves lives! 

Body & Soul is an innovative charity that uses a comprehensive, community-based and trauma informed approach to address the life-threatening effects of childhood adversity in people of all ages.

In 1996 Body & Soul was established to address the gap in HIV services that provided targeted support for children, young people, and families. We have developed a ‘whole person’ model of care rooted in a strengths based approach that nurtures connection, healing and growth.

Our approach is evidence based and informs all that we do. We take a systemic and humanistic approach that is collaborative and solution focused. Through building members’ protective factors we promote and develop resiliency, interrupt latent vulnerability and transform lives.

There is a substantial body of research showing that the stress associated with adverse childhood experiences can have life-long consequences for health and well-being. According to the World Health Organization, “such stress can lead to serious problems such as alcoholism, depression, eating disorders, unsafe sex, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases”.

Compassionate spaces are created both within ourselves and within Body & Soul. Our ‘whole person approach’ brings cohesion back to someone’s life that has been fragmented by trauma.

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