From Pain to Purpose The Exodus by Rosanne Reid

“The punishment stopped when I could no longer fit in the cupboard.

There would be a pain in my neck and when I got up the next morning that's when pain would go,” she said. I'd be left in there, would fall asleep crying, and I couldn't stand straight when I was let out. He would put me in a cupboard where I'd have to fold myself in a foetal position and he would lock the door with a key. She recalls having a sweet tooth as a child and being punished bitterly for crying if she never got sweets. And I thought to myself, 'How do you tell an 18-month-old that?” My mother told me when I was 20 years old that at one year and six months I was struggling to tie my shoelaces and she left me there and told me to do it myself because she was pregnant with my brother. “My mother was sick with the pregnancies and often couldn't manage the housework, so a lot of the responsibilities fell on me as the oldest one from I was probably six or seven. Reid, who is the first of five children for her parents, subsequently had to learn to fend for herself from early and assumed many household responsibilities as a child.

There was usually a lot of shouting, a lot of conflict, and it would be in front of us children.” “We were supposedly Christians, but there were a lot of issues with negativity as my father was very negative both verbally and physically. “I grew up in a closed-sect church where we had no interaction with the outside world and the only people we could interact with were members of the church,” she toldĪll Woman. SHE'S self-motivated, outgoing, dedicated, adventurous and committed to using her experiences to empower people to discover themselves.īorn and raised in Constant Spring, St Andrew, Rosanne Reid, 31, did not have the best experiences as a child, but one thing she learnt was to manoeuvre her situation in order to be successful.

From Pain to Purpose The Exodus by Rosanne Reid