My story is one of long struggle, quiet determination, and finding purpose through pain.

For 25 years, I lived under the same roof as a perpetrator of domestic abuse. Those decades were filled with control, fear, and isolation — years where my voice was silenced, my confidence worn down, and my world narrowed to survive each day. It was a long, difficult journey to recognise what I was living through, and even longer to begin to heal from it. When I finally reached a place where I could look back and understand what had happened, I realised there was only one way I could truly come to terms with it: to write about it. I put my experiences into words, not to dwell on the suffering, but to make sense of it — to turn years of silence into something that could help others.

Writing that book became my therapy, my way of reclaiming my own story, and a message to anyone else trapped in similar circumstances: you are not alone, what you endure is not your fault, and there is always a way forward.

But my life also holds another journey — one of curiosity, science, and relentless problem‑solving. Over 30 years, I dedicated myself to researching and developing electrical generator technology, searching for a way to overcome the limitations that have held back energy efficiency for over a century. That work, too, was shaped by my strength of will: I carried it forward even through the hardest times, even having prototypes destroyed by an angry ex-partner and later completed it after facing and overcoming cancer. Just as I refused to be defined by my circumstances, I refused to let the limitations of old designs be accepted as permanent.

Today, I stand as both a survivor of domestic abuse and an inventor. I have released my energy technology freely into the public domain, so it belongs to everyone and serves no one’s profit alone. And I share my story of survival so that others may find the courage to speak up, heal, and rebuild.

My work in science and my work in telling my truth come from the same place: the belief that we can change what seems fixed, and turn hardship into something that benefits others.