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Shaftesbury & Gillingham

Christine Wallach – “Now I Belong to Me”

Event type: Meeting
Date: 5th June 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Venue: The New Remembrance Hall
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Just before my 50th birthday, my husband and I and five of our seven children were summarily excommunicated from a strict and restrictive religious cult and found ourselves outside the community without any support and not a friend in the world and all this because our two sons had broken the strict rules about not going to the cinema.  We had both been born into the group and knew little of the outside world, and it took us many months to begin to adjust to our new lives.  My story is about how I personally worked my way into being a successful business woman in my own right, the highs and lows of this journey, and how our family coped with the trauma.

Christine has been a speaker for over 20 years – a member of the International Speak Organisation known as Toastmasters, and has reached Distinguished level within the organisation. She is a mother of 7, grandmother to twenty-one.