Nina Funnell

And that's exactly how I view it as I'm facilitating them taking that next step in their process.

towards, you know, healing and recovery or, you know, reclaiming agency over their story.

Lots of people might not have heard it.

Yeah, sure.

So I was studying media and communications at Sydney University.

I

And I was doing my honours year in media and comms and it was actually on the day of my honours presentation.

I was travelling home afterwards and I was walking down my street, which is in Sydney at the time I was living with my parents and it's in a pretty safe suburb.

It's in Hunters Hill.

And I was...

I had headphones on and I remember I was carrying my university notes and a bottle of Coke Zero and I had a guy approach me from behind and he grabbed me around here and he held a box cutter blade to my throat.

And he dragged me into a park and he said – he released me and he came and he stood in front of me and he said point blank, he said, I'm going to kill you.

And he made a fist and he struck me and I fell back on my back and he climbed on top of me and began –

strangling me and bashing me and then indecently sexually assaulting me.

And this is 19 years ago now, so I've had a lot of therapy and a lot of processing since then, but I fought back and

there's parts of my memory that are missing or that are fragmented.

I do remember a feeling.

I mean, the most terrifying part was actually when I was being strangled because I couldn't breathe and I thought I was going to die.

When he got off me, I remember like just the sensation, the feeling of lightness on my chest that I could breathe again.

And then the next memory that I have is actually standing up and looking down and I had blood on my hands.