Carrie came to SACA because she was having a nervous breakdown. She had been in a private clinic where she was helped to uncover the roots of her distress, and here she also received great understanding and support. She now needed long term counselling to help her come to terms with what had happened to her as a small child.

Carrie and her family lived in a small village in Suffolk, there were seven children in the family and the money was always short even though Dad was in work. There were other related families in the village but it was an uncle that the family saw most of as he was elderly and needed support from the family. Whenever mum had to visit him the younger children in Carrie's family had to go too, the uncle became interested in Carrie and her sister in a way that didn't feel good to them and despite telling mum, their pleas not to be taken there were dismissed. When Carrie, aged six, tried to tell her mum exactly what was happening her mum told her "well don't let him do it then." This response made Carrie feel that it was her fault that it was happening. She would be left at her uncles house when mum did his shopping for him, Later she would be taken there by her older brothers and sisters who were going to Sunday School or just when her uncle wanted to see her, he would pay them in chocolate to bring her.

Because of what was happening to her Carrie spent much of her life afraid and ashamed. She couldn't concentrate at school, and because the family were so poor that their mum brought their clothes from the local jumble sales she was teased by the children that had worn them before her. Secondary school was just more of the same for her, a time she had no choice but to endure in pain and shame.

Eventually Carrie married and had three children but the death of her sister who was closest in age to her and who she adored threw her into crisis. Her troubled past began to resurface, although those around her thought she was suffering the loss of her sister, which of course she was, but it was becoming about so much more now. Her husband who had become a very successful business man was so worried about her that he paid for her to have therapy and it was there that her journey of healing began.  

Carrie knew she wanted to recover from her painful past, she had already brought up three loving and successful children, but she wanted something else for herself. Gradually she began to leave her past, where she had been stuck, behind her, and set her sights on what she wanted from the future, to fulfill what she saw as her purpose in life which was to bring healing to others. She is now working at her chosen career and making a positive difference to other people's lives, she is the success she was destined to be.