Can I just add that the reason it's not easy is that I am not just the person running the Veteran Farm Project? I am a woman who's been sexually assaulted by men in the Canadian Forces, the ones who are supposed to be having your back, your battle buddy. How do you expect someone to come back from that and retrust men, organizations...?
It is incredibly difficult. I put a smile on my face every day and I think of ways to support other women because I need that support too. It needs to be a group effort to lift each other up, because all we feel is oppressed.
Thank you.