Written by

Cassandra Ashcroft

I mistakenly saw my child as being a vessel by which to heal me, but this is where I was wrong. She was not my vessel to heal, but my stimulus. If I didn’t heal my wounds, then she would have to.
Cassandra Ashcroft is a frontline worker at Wayside Chapel, a Sydney community-based organisation that has been providing unconditional love, care and support for people experiencing homelessness in Sydney since 1964. Its Aboriginal Cultural Centre provides counselling, advocacy, referrals and other forms of support, as well as cultural activities and ‘mob lunches’. Donate to Wayside’s Winter Appeal today.

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