17/09/2025
Good morning lovely ones!
Some of you may have watched the latest Sheridan Smith reality based drama “ I fought the Law” the true story of a mothers fight for justice for her murdered daughter?
The real mother has confirmed that the portrayal of her was very realistic which is brutally honest given that she did not always come across in the most constructive way or manage to regulate her emotions – some would say she did not do herself any favours in the early days!
However it is a frank and brutal account of what we call moral injury – when a terrible trauma is compounded by a lack of justice, consequence or resolve.
When good people are experiencing moral injury and feel unheard, unseen, ignored and simply unimportant that came understandably show up as rage!
Ann Ming spent years of her life at very great personal cost getting the courts to acknowledge that just because something is technically not wrong in the eyes of the law or does not meet a legal threshold it is totally morally wrong and needs to be righted!!
Some of the hardest cases I work with are good people who have been so badly wronged but that trauma is then made ten times worse by being totally abandoned by the legal justice system meaning their perpetrator or abuser has no consequences and pays no price for the damage they caused, the ripples of which can radiate far and wide!
So if you have ever found it really hard to get over something because there has been elements of no consequences or sense of justice - morally or in law - you have possibly sustained a moral injury - its a real thing!!
So be kind to yourself!! xx
