I don’t like the way she refers women in refuge as “my warriors”
they are not hers; they do not belong to her. They are vulnerable women having fled abusive situations and I doubt they even care about PTWM whilst dealing with surviving such a traumatic time.
There are always turnarounds in refuge, sometimes a woman stays for months and others just hours. Some women return to their partner for whatever reason, fear or love, others find suitable accommodation.
So it is impossible for her to claim them as “her warriors”, she doesn’t work in a refuge. She doesn’t work WITH a refuge, for God sakes it drives me mad because her followers will read that and think she does actually work with victims.
And THAT is how vulnerable people contact her for help. THAT is why people have donated.
“My warriors”?
I would never say that at work. I’d say “my service users” when speaking to another agency, or their names to my colleagues or “the women in refuge”.
Warriors is cringe and just a silly term. It conjures up an image of some fighter with a big fork or axe or whatever and ready to fight some war. It’s chavvy.