TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains discussions about intra-familial sexual abuse (incest), suicide and other topics that you may find uncomfortable. Mostly people just want to run away. The subject is too difficult, too dark, too troubling to cope with. So it’s...
Melissa Holmes works for Stepping Out in Leichhardt. “It basically involves helping survivors of childhood sexual abuse to live in the community.” She’s come down to Addi Road’s Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre in Marrickville to pick up hampers being...