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Clare Lavery
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Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
Tomorrow #16Days
Education is key on #IDEVAW #VentagliDiNonViolenza

How often music chimes in times of challenge

I have a soundtrack of Learning about surviving violence & systems -we learn this dance from other survivors
We share & comfort

‘You can do this hard thing’
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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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What are we NOT talking about in the #trauma space that we need to talk about more?
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Were you a #LanguageAssistant with ⁦@BritishCouncil

That was the question I had to answer when applying to create support for Language Assistants worldwide

#LanguageMatters

It’s #LanguageAssistant120 🎉

Can you share your experiences?

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In 2000-2001 Over 2000 Language Assistants told me via questionnaires abroad, narrative accounts and focus groups back in UK universities about their experiences on The British Council Language… | Cla...
In 2000-2001 Over 2000 Language Assistants told me via questionnaires abroad, narrative accounts and focus groups back in UK universities about their experiences on The British Council Language Assist...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fresh Air is all we need
For our Souls to breathe
Buy me nothing but freedom
To love
To work
To Learn
To live
Free from Violence

#IWD #VentagliDiNonViolenza #16Days #Femicidio #Femicide
#VAWG #VAWC #CSA

L’Anima Vola
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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A reading of the Introduction of my next book so you can see if you'd like it!

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Caring for The People Who Care
The Introduction
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November 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Let the celebration begin with a cake themed day
I’ve already consumed so much chocolate & marscarpone I need an all day workout & hike

It’s a piece of cake
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November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Healing the whole person after #DomesticViolence & #CoerciveControl involves Mind, Body & Soul

You cannot heal from #trauma induced by long term systemic mind games & judicial bias if your workplace is also highly toxic.

Support systems reforms are 🔑

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November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Each year I support the plight of Mothers keeping abused children safe
This year will be no different for #16Days
although it’s something I raise awareness of every day as I have been doing for 20 years
Don’t mess with me
I have very strong arm muscles 💪

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An image I have used often Today as my son enters his 30th year I look back on all the actions that have been necessary to keep him and his siblings safe Sometimes my arms have ached at the weight…...
An image I have used often Today as my son enters his 30th year I look back on all the actions that have been necessary to keep him and his siblings safe Sometimes my arms have ached at the weight ...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“The very things that separated me & distinguished me from other people were what mattered; the things no one else would or could say, these were the things I had to say”

Andre Gide

Give Me Strength
Give me Eyes to SEE

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November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#TraGhiaccioENeve

“Because my mouth is silent, do you think my heart is at rest?”

― André Gide

Tabusso- Snow on the hills at Beaulard
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not”

Andre Gide- Autumn Leaves

#TraGhiacchioENeve
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My afternoon dance is a gentle waltz
before a brisk walk
This for all my favourite people
Survivors of multiple misfortunes
Golden hearts are enough
Sceptical dreamers
Not afraid they are Beginners
late Bloomers when it comes to Love
Some things Unspoken
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November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We encounter new mountains
We make peace in the snow
We wear new skates
The Landscape lives within
like the purest snows

Blood Oranges in the Snow
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Soon to be celebrating my Italian sisters & eating my favourite blood oranges with them in the sacred snow
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#TraGhiaccioENeve @VentagliP

Between ice and snow
Our hearts lie buried
In an Avalanche
They say home is where the heart resides
Its beat a muffled sound
In this bleached landscape
On a mountain side

Wicked for Good
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November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The stillness of snow-covered hills
The dense woods, the cold and mist
in those dark, wild days

‘I may have been gone a long time
but I’m no stranger’

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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
'Let it fall like snow
with confidence
And grace
Have you been carrying too much?
It's not the kind of fight
you lose or win
Breathe In'

Let it Fall
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#TraGhiaccioENeve su #VentagliDiParole
Durham Hills ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Our interactions in many spaces depend on mirrors
Mirrors can be destructive or deceptive
An abuser will mirror back to us to reel us in- pretending to have similar interests, agreeing with us

Social Media amplifies this
You haven’t the full picture

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November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
'L'universo eterno delle cose scorre
attraverso la mente rotola le sue rapide onde
ora oscure, ora scintillanti,
ora riflettenti l'oscurità, ora donando splendore
dove da sorgenti segrete
la fonte del pensiero umano porta il suo tributo'

Shelley - Mont Blanc
#PaesaggiSfumati
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
'The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings'

Shelley- Mont Blanc

Durham Bridle Paths
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Some of my favourite Italian sculptures

The impulse
The Resistance
The tension

The need to be adored
The running from control
The surrender

I wanna be adored -The Stone Roses

#RIPMani Sad news & Iconic song 🎵 🌹

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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Children want a world where their rights are respected and fulfilled.

This #WorldChildrensDay, join us to listen to children and learn about their rights.

Even the smallest actions can add up to make a better world #ForEveryChild.
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#WorldChildrensDay

Call for curricula based in survivor informed creative methods

Recognise the whole child after #CSA
Support their Lion hearts

Make it mandatory through the whole education process
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#worldchildrensday | Clare Lavery
#WorldChildrensDay Celebrate the brave children who struggle to recover from wars and abuse The personal and the political wars in which they are collateral damage in adult power games 🦁❤️Circumstances create Lionhearts 🦁Fearless warriors helping others to recover from their trauma 🦁Travelling across the scary lands of memory and harm 🦁Taking time to create space for the child to take back their power 🦁Climbing mountains together to get to safety Climb Every Mountain Lionhearts We won't run We're here to stay Howling ghosts they reappear Mountains that are stacked with fear But we have Lion hearts Though far away We are still the same Survivors are Lion Hearts ❤️❤️🦁 Be Lion-hearted With Love Sophie Olson Rob Balfour GMBPsS and all therapists and educators who are Lionhearts leading the way to survivor designed trauma support King & Lionhearts youtu.be/A76a_LNIYwE?si…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
‘I inherited a dark wood’

On #WorldChildrensDay

Celebrate the children who walked out of the dark Woods
Celebrate the adults walking alongside them

Retrace your steps my child
They have brought you
to where you need to be

Painting: Carlo Levi- Trees in a Light Wood
Poem: Trastromer (Fulton)
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The golden thread
that binds you to your past
Let it be a chain
Or let it be a torch
The choice is in your hands
Hurt people don't always hurt people
Hurt people also help others who have been harmed
Follow the Golden thread
Shine your Light in the dark

Happy #WorldChildrensDay
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM