Windrush Wednesday – I. Stephanie Boyce

✨WINDRUSH WEDNESDAY✨

The first woman of the Windrush Generation we are celebrating today is…

Stephanie Boyce.

Stephanies parents arrived in the UK as teenagers, she was however raised in a single parent home on an Aylesbury council estate.

She gained a law degree from London Guildhall University in 1999 and became a solicitor in 2002.

In March 2021 she became the first person of colour and only the sixth female president of the Law Society of England and Wales.

She’s received various awards and signs of recognition – in 2020 she was voted onto the Governance Hot 100 List, in 2021 she made the Power List 100 Most Influential Black People in the UK. In 2022 she received the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for her leadership of the legal profession during the COVID-19 pandemic and for services to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Stephanie is an amazing example of pushing boundaries and achieving great success, while still remembering where you have come from.

A lot of the ladies that I work with feel that they can’t achieve and can’t succeed because of the trauma they have been through and also because it is still harder for a black woman to succeed in the UK, but not impossible with the right support around them.

Join us at The Hope Gala Ball, where you will help & support you will be putting money into GEM (Global Empowerment Movement) to continue to empower women & girls into leadership.

For tickets – www.yvonnemichele.com 😉

Tuesday Truth – Denise Keane-Simmons

16th April 2020 – the world was locked down, in the early hours of the morning the police were called to speak to Denise about the revenge porn her estranged husband had posted. The officers took their notes and left at 1:30 – if only they’d done a quick search of the garden!

An hour later Denise had been doused in petrol and set on fire, she was rushed to hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Her estranged husband admitted in court to being controlling and jealous, he maintained that he hadn’t meant to kill her, even though a voice note he’d left her the evening before said “I really hope you suffer and die.”

His internet searched showed that he’d been searching for what is the best way to use a knife and kill someone, along with insanity in English law and cases where the insanity defence worked!

What frustrates me so much about this is it could all have been prevented if a police officer had done her job properly.

Denise first reported her ex in January 2020 for domestic abuse.

The officer involved cancelled interviews with Denise’s ex three times – she never spoke to him at all and then closed the case on April 6th, just 10 days before he took Denises life.

The officer involved in this case has lost her job, in the words of the IOPC for a shocking dereliction of duty. This officer failed Denise and Denises family, this happens way too often, she should have done more and taken Denises allegations seriously. She should have followed the reasonable lines of enquiry which her supervisor had set then maybe Denise would still be here today.

There is a perception that black women are strong and don’t need as much support, this is so WRONG.

We need the same amount of support as white women. We need to be seen and heard from a humanity stand point!

From my own experiences of dealing with the police for a personal matter if I was upset and emotional I had mental health issues, if I was calm and dealing with it I didn’t need support, I was damned either way.

My career has come full circle ⭕️ after leaving the DA, I’m working with a charity in London empowering woman & girls who are victims & survivors of domestic abuse to live better lives, in safety and learn to go from being a victim, to a survivor and find their true voice.

Happy Mothers Day

💫 Happy Mothers Day 💫

To All the beautiful Queens
You are the essence of love
Love is the highest vibration
It’s Gods greatest gift

Today & everyday YOU ARE honoured
You are seen
You are heard
You are valued
You are appreciated

Most of all you are LOVED ❤️

💫 Happy Mothers Day 💫

21 Days to Loving Yourself

So you may be that woman who is sick and tired of being sick and tired with your life… You seem to take 2 steps forward but FEELS like you have taken 100 steps backwards all at the same time.

You may just want to be able to express yourself at the highest expression of who you are and change your life.This might be your story, and it doesn’t feel good … does it?

You might be at a place where you’ve been single for a long time and you want to meet the person of your dreams. This may be where you’re at, and you’re just totally like, how am I going to do that there are no men out there….

Wherever you find yourself & whatever the issue is, I’m here to tell you it’s ok… and I have amazing news and have an exciting opportunity for you from the fourth of October, I will be running a 21 day, online programme How to Love Yourself“.

This means that for 21 days. I’m going to be committed to you and other like-minded women who want to improve their lives, their relationships and create the life of their dreams. Let’s face it, we got to work on ourselves first… right!

My grandmother and otherwise women used to say… you have to learn to dance a yard before you go abroad. 

Which basically means, learn to do what you’re doing well, where you are, be comfortable in your own surrounding in your own environments before you go out and do something in other surroundings – 

Fall madly in love with yourself first…
Appreciate yourself 
Accept yourself 
Acknowledge yourself 
Align with yourself 
Affirm before you do that with anybody else. 

So I’m inviting you, even if you are married and you feel like your relationship is a little stuck, or you’re in at a bit of a stalemate, or you may just think, cha, I just need something that will help me to reconnect with my partner. 

This 21-day online experience has been specifically designed for you so that you are able to rise, thrive and live the life of your dreams. 

So if this sounds like something you need and it’s something you want that’s going help you to navigate yourself that one step closer to your goal, click the link and book yourself on it, without delay, and you won’t regret it.

Take care, ciao ciao.

Coming Soon

Coffee, Cake, and Conversation…

 

With speaker & presentation Master Coach and Trainer Yvonne Michele Award-winning radio talk show Host & survivor and activist against child sexual abuse & violence against women

 

Would You Like to Increase Your CONFIDENCE, boost your self-esteem, & know your true Value?
Would you like to become a leading innovator in your chosen career?
Do You have a passion/Hobby that you wish to turn in to profit-making business, and gain a larger social network and improve your social SKILLS?
Do you have a story to share with the world – let us help you turn your mess into a life-changing message…

 

Come along to our weekly sessions that will help you to develop and empower yourself, learn new skills, find solutions to the challenges that affect your life and the lives of other women in your community.

 

These sessions will be hosted by qualified NLP Practitioners & experts who will equip you with tools and skills that will help you heal, re-discover your power, rebuild and redesign your life & Business into something barely recognizable

 This is a life-changing project that is focused on improving emotional literacy, uplifting, empowering, transforming women within our community.

Telephone Now on 07957255670 or Click The Link Below, 

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Life After Trauma…

Life After Trauma 

This journey of ‘coming out’ has had so many twists and turns, I’ve lost many friendships who didn’t agree with my openness on this subject but at the same time, I’ve gained some incredible new friends who are supportive & caring unconditionally. I knew speaking out wasn’t going to be easy, I knew it was what I should do, I knew I need to do it , but, I was petrified. How could I be so terrified of letting others know that there is life after trauma?

What would everyone think of me? That was one of the questions that plagued my mind…

I have been living in fear for most of my life, I didn’t realise I was living in fear, I was too busy wearing a mask and pretending that I was ok….. but what does ok really mean?

I ask that question because that’s the question I have been asked time and time again…since I can remember. My answer remained the same for thirty-seven years …it was a lie that was killing me, strangling the life out of me inside.

5 years ago I made the decision to take off the mask and that day was the beginning of my true recovery.

To be honest the road to recovery takes a lot of energy and requires hard work, perseverance, forgiveness, determination, having a thick skin & self-belief. It’s not easy, there are constant challenges but it is achievable …. 

With a good support system/network, a lot of self care and learning to take one step at a time, remaining in my  present, NLP therapy, renewing my mind daily & trusting my faith in God, I was able to face the secrets, self hate, the shame & separation of my past to start creating and living a breathtaking life. 

Speaking out and telling my truth is another part of the process of MY healing and restoration. I believe that unless we really start talking about the issues of abuse, exposing those who have perpetrated and challenging the judicial system it will continue in this vicious cycle.  

Time is Up!

We cannot change the past but we can leave it behind, walk forward and embrace a breathtaking future with our heads held high. It’s time to live in the truth. Face the demons that have haunted our minds for so long; Conquer every fear, activate our power to live in the NOW.

We all have a responsibility to tell our stories, by doing so we empower others to tell their own stories and regain their life back too.

Together we are the Voice of Freedom, together our voices become the echo that brings down the walls of silence, shame, and separation. Together we are strong, together we are powerful, together we will become the voice that will rebuild, restructure and redefine the judicial system once and for all! 

There is HOPE … let us rise together!

Read part of my story in this week’s issue of The Voice Newspaper 

By: Marcia Dixon

Photography by: Joy Jobi

Support Network: Transformation Power House (Gee Abiah Patchett)

Reconnected Life (Emily Jacob)

To Purchase: To Report or Not yo Report Survivors Testimony of the (In) Justice System.

Click below to go to the dedicated website.

Royalties to the charities chosen by the survivor-authors.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Report-Not-Survivor-Testimony-Justice/dp/1976967538/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2_nodl?ie=UTF8&qid=1517911184&sr=8-1&keywords=to+report+or+not+to+report