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All Things Considered: Lorraine Cavanagh -  surviving childhood trauma

15/01/2023

Lorraine Cavanagh -  surviving childhood trauma

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Lorraine Cavanagh -  surviving childhood trauma

Delyth Liddell speaks to Revd Dr Lorraine Cavanagh about her childhood abuse.

Delyth Liddell speaks to Revd Dr Lorraine Cavanagh about dealing with her past emotional and sexual abuse, against a background of glamorous balls, parties and entitled wealth.

"Get on the pill, get a job, and stay out of my life" - such were the less than encouraging words her father once addressed to the young  Lorraine Cavanagh. Despite coming from a wealthy and privileged family background (her grandmother was the inventor of the modern bra, and the proprietor of a prestigious publishing house), Dr Cavanagh endured a childhood of emotional neglect, and sexual abuse at the hands of a stepfather she was encouraged to call 'Dad'. In this candid interview, Revd Cavanagh, who is now a Church in Wales priest,  talks to  Delyth Liddell about her new book, a memoir about coming to terms with her early life: Rebuilding the Ruined Places, and her journey of faith, trying to make sense of some of the  paradoxes of her extraordinary, glamorous and yet emotionally starved upbringing in France, America, Spain and England.

This programme was first broadcast in January 2023.

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