Kate Langbroek

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Hello, I'm Kate Langbrook, host of No Filter.

Today's guest is Jenny Haynes.

Jenny has lived through things that are almost impossible to comprehend.

As a child, she survived years of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of her father by creating what she describes as multiple personalities, thousands of distinct voices and protectors who emerged to carry memories, fear, pain, and meant that she could survive.

In 2019, Jenny became the first person in Australian legal history to have those personalities accepted as evidence in a criminal trial against her father, testimony that helped convict him and sentence him to 45 years in prison.

There's now a documentary about Jenny's life called We Are Jenny.

But sitting across from her, what struck me wasn't just the enormity of what she survived.

It was her warmth, her humour, her intelligence, and the extraordinary tenderness she has for the people she created inside herself in order to survive it.

In this conversation, Jenny talks openly about trauma, memory, survival, and the internal system she built to protect herself.

She explains how those personalities came to exist, what they carried for her,

and why so many of them are still with her today.

While we don't discuss the abuse Jenny endured as a child in graphic detail, it is still central to this conversation, so please listen mindfully.

This is Jenny Haynes on No Filter.

Dr Jenny Haynes.

Welcome to No Filter.

Thank you.