Jo Phillips

“He tried to touch me and I said no. He looked back at me and said words that damaged me more than the acts themselves for a long time. He said you never used to say no before and instantly it suddenly became my fault.”

Jo Philips is a former Rugby League player and coach for Wakefield Trinity Women. She shares her journey of childhood sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She is also a stroke survivor and shares her many perspectives of the NHS in her health journey, both physical and mental.