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Amanda Blackwood has many hats—author, public speaker, podcast host, artist, survivor—but ultimately, she’s a woman who transformed her trauma into resilience and strength. Now, Amanda uses her knowledge of growth and healing to inspire trauma survivors everywhere that they can become anything.
When Amanda finally managed to get away from the man who was trafficking her, she was thirty-one years old and didn’t know what she’d gone through or even have a name, much less how to deal with the pain of feeling like a broken person, unworthy of love and filled with so much anger.
On a freezing cold day in 2018, she went to an anti-trafficking event where she saw former trafficked people standing on stage, bold, resilient, and resolute. At that moment, she finally knew what her purpose in life was.
Since then, Amanda has brought her story to many stages, international summits, and radio programs and has written over a dozen books. She launched two podcasts—one that focuses on interviewing other authors of trauma and the other that discusses the long-term consequences of trauma and how to fight back for a better life.
I was young when the abuse started. It came from every angle. Struggling for many years, I wasn’t sure I’d ever have a chance at real love and true happiness. At the age of 31 I figured I was too old for that sort of thing. Then I met a man in Scotland.
I was moving to a foreign country to get married to a police officer I’d known for seven years. I would finally be happy. I had no idea that my entire life would change once more, and I’d be forced to either subject myself to abuse beyond anything I could ever imagine, or end my life unceremoniously, death by train.
There is no way to seek court justice across international borders against a broken justice system, much less against a police officer. I’d have to figure out a way to take matters into my own hands.
Taking a whirlwind life of challenge, including being exploited by three separate traffickers in wildly different situations, taking place across many years, the best selling author Blackwood breathed her experience into over a dozen books, including her intriguing autobiography, Custom Justice.
Teaching adults and teens how to overcome obstacles, let go of resentment, and start difficult conversations while we still can. Shedding the trauma victim identity, Amanda shares ideas, practices and proven methods that help survivors to heal and step into their giftings.
Putting a spotlight on survivors of trauma who have written about their recovery experience.
