How Divorce, Menopause & Cancer Caused Me to Lose and Then Find Myself

Donna James
7 min readMar 17, 2021
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Twenty years ago my self-esteem had been essentially obliterated by an abusive marriage. By the time I left I doubted everything about myself. Was I was doing the right thing? Would I be able to do this on my own — to start over from scratch? I had been told again and again that I couldn’t do anything right. That I would never survive without him. Well I did!

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Donna James

Freelance copywriter & domestic abuse survivor helping clients find the RIGHT words — and empower survivors to HEAL from the hurtful ones.