No bruises, but lasting scars — how a strange 'lesson' shaped my trust, fear, and sense of safety.

A resource list for readers in Northern Ireland, the UK, Ireland, and beyond.

On World Suicide Prevention Day, we remember a young woman written out of history — and the patterns of silence that still echo.

Survivor of Patriarchy, Gaslighting, and a King with a God Complex

Debt, Dreams, and Dough (Literally)

How I am tackling nearly £40,000 of coerced debt during the cost of living crisis, one payment at a time.

What one woman’s testimony reveals about survival, silence, and the price of justice in nineteenth-century Ireland

Honouring the lives and stories of those silenced by hidden abuse, and remembering the truths society tried to erase.

How cupboards, mugs, salt, and even nursery rhymes reveal the hidden patterns of abuse - and how reclaiming them helps us tell the story ourselves.

Maurice Dobson and Fred Halliday met during World War Two and opened a store in Darfield, Barnsley.

In July 1808, the Dublin Evening Post reported a short, startling case:'A ruffian, named Patrick Curran, who split his wife’s ear, and cut her with a hammer, was sentenced to be imprisoned three month...

He outlawed salt… but called my Christmas dinners the best food he’d ever eaten.

How England’s most infamous king weaponised marriage, law and power in patterns we now call coercive control

I left him, kept the mugs, and now I own thirty-seven.

When a woman forgave her abuser in court - and the press amplified her words - it revealed how coercive control shaped the lives of ordinary Irish women.

Becca Does Things is where history meets survival. I tell stories of abuse in the past, reflect on my own experiences, and celebrate joy as resistance.