We're Not Walking Around Wounded with the Kavanaugh Sisters

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Sisters Kavanagh, Joyce, June and Paula, are three sisters born into a large family of ten children in the late 1950s and early 1960s, raised in a disadvantaged area of Dublin.
From the age of three or four and throughout their teenage years, they endured daily sexual abuse at the hands of their father.
In 1989, they made the courageous decision to bring charges against him. The following year, the Irish State successfully prosecuted their father, resulting in a conviction and a seven-year prison sentence, of which he served five.
The Grip of Childhood Sexual Abuse’ is a 10 hour – non-fiction audio book in which they share openly and honestly all the knowledge, insights and understanding derived from over thirty years’ experience in recovery work as a direct result of being sexually abused as children.

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0:47.8	Welcome to the Traumathirous podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. I interview incredible people
0:53.0	who've dedicated their lives to helping those who have been impacted by trauma.
0:56.9	Here we go.
0:59.1	So five, four, three, two, and one.
1:03.1	Our folks, welcome back to the podcast.
1:05.2	Very excited to have Joyce, June, and Paula Kavanaugh back with me.
1:12.4	Welcome, ladies. Welcome.
1:19.6	Thank you. Glad to be back. These, uh, Kavanaugh sisters were born into a large family of 10 in the late 50s and early 60s, raised in the disadvantage area of Dublin. From the age of
1:25.6	three or four and throughout their teenage years, they endured
1:28.1	daily sexual abuse at the hands of their father. In 1989, they made the courageous decision
1:33.4	to bring charges against him the following year the Irish state successfully prosecuted their
1:38.5	father, resulting in a conviction, the seven-year prison sentence of which he served five.
1:44.5	The grip of childhood sexual abuses is a 10-hour non-fiction audio book in which they share openly in honesty,
1:52.1	all the knowledge, insights, and understandings derived from over 30 years' experience in recovery work
1:57.1	as a direct result of being sexually abused as children.
2:01.3	All right, ladies, welcome.
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