I did a thing!

Late last year, I was asked by one of the pastors at my church if I would share my testimony as part of a message where it would be an essential part of it.  I said I would think about it as it involves domestic abuse trauma from my past that I'm still working through.

Once I had decided to share it, I then worked on what I wanted to say for a few weeks, by the time it was ready along with the main message, the UK was back in its second national lockdown.  Which meant that I would only need to record it for the online message and not need to share it in church personally.

I was very nervous about recording it as I'd not done anything like this before and while I was speaking I was feeling triggered in places.  It took me a few attempts but I managed to get a version that I was happy sharing.

Even though It was difficult to do, I'm grateful that I was asked and that I managed to record it as it's definitely a very important part of my healing that I did in 2020 and I think that it needed to be shared, so it can help others. 

Almost as soon as I knew I was going to record it, I made the decision to share it as an IGTV meanwhile I also kept having internal nudges to put it onto YouTube.  The latter one I had to sit with for a while as it would involve a bit more work on my part.  I would need to record an introduction and outro to it, as well as adding a trigger warning screen at least to help it make a bit more sense.  

I decided to also make some channel art, which is the same as the art for this blog, a name title screen, I created a like, subscribe and notification graphic with sound effects as well as an outro screen and music.  It took me a few days to edit it all together as I'm new to editing videos, I use iMovie as it comes free with my MacBook Pro but I managed to do it and really enjoyed the process.

While I was receiving the YouTube channel nudges last year, I also had nudges to do other videos, to recreate some blog and Instagram posts as videos.

It's all very early days but I'm excited about this journey as I really enjoy the editing part.  I'm really not very comfortable talking to the camera yet, and my editing needs practice, but both of those will come with time.  

Please click on the video below If you would like so see my testimony video.

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