‘There is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in’ – I think about this line from ‘Anthem’, Leonard Cohen’s extraordinary song often. I read somewhere that he thought of this song one of his best, representative of his life’s work.
This idea of something cracked letting in beauty (or letting it out) isn’t new. It exists in various other traditions, including texts by Rumi who said that the wound was where light entered us and the Japanese art of kintsugi, where broken vessels are mended with gold, silver or platinum.
Today I saw a shaft of light in the cold morning sky, blue in the grey. It made the clouds around it look silver, and I saw beauty and hope.
There have been many times that I have seen myself as broken – and people I love and work with often tell me they see themselves in similar ways.
We are not broken, but beautiful.
This doesn’t mean we don’t have days when life is tough, we do.
What may damage us can also shape us and make us the extraordinary resilient people we are.
I am a journalist, author and speaker. With more than two decades media experience, I am an expert communicator and media consultant with an extensive network, and someone who is committed to supporting news rooms and media leaders to create safe, successful spaces for a more effective and empathetic industry.
I have co-authored various ground-breaking reports into the safety of women journalists, the kidnapping of journalists and moral injury and the media, as well as being involved in the development and delivery of curricula and courses on issues including gender-sensitive reporting and countering sexual harassment .
My key areas of expertise include journalism safety, mental health, gender and ethics and I have written and spoken extensively on these subjects.
I am widely respected for her skills in moderating and facilitating conversations on a range of subjects, have been published by some of world's leading media outlets and am comfortable speaking in front of large audiences.
I am also an award-winning author of flash fiction, which has been published widely, and my debut collection is being launched in 2021.
I have recently finished my first novel and am now working on a memoir, provisionally entitled 'Aftershocks.'
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