The story of how the singer Lucy Dhegrae lost her voice and healed and found it again, is an uplifting and inspiring one. It reveals so much about trauma and how it affects us not only physically but psychologically too (“Trauma survivor rediscovers her lost singing ability,” Jan.15, Gulf Today).

While unpleasant situations and experiences scar us, not talking about them does more than that. Like the story mentions sexual assault survivors who eventually lost their voice after remaining silent for not being able to talk about what they have been through.

The singer worked a lot on her recovery and it is mind-blowing that she got her voice back, that she healed. Others are not as fortunate. And I hope that these very others would take courage and realise, like the singer, that they are more than what they have been through.

It isn’t easy, in fact it seems impossible but the fact that Lucy did it, means there is hope for all. More women fall into this bracket of not only suffering from the first unpleasant experience but from the trauma that follows and most times, it is the secondary suffering that’s worse than what caused it.

Glad for this story.

Joyce D
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