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About Emily Jacob
Founder of ReConnected Life
Hi, I'm Emily Jacob, the founder of ReConnected Life, a survivor-led platform supporting people after rape and sexual trauma.
My work began from lived experience and grew into a wider body of writing, advocacy, media commentary, recovery resources and trauma-aware support. Over the years, I have contributed to national conversations across press, television, radio, podcasts, survivor-led collaborations and professional speaking spaces, including the Saint Mary’s SARC Conference.
My work focuses on what happens after sexual violence: the silence, the shock, the disconnection, the isolation, the search for language, the impact on body and identity, and the long, uneven process of finding a way back to yourself.
ReConnected Life exists because survival is not the end of the story.
Survivor-led, trauma-aware support
My approach is rooted in the belief that survivors deserve support that does not rush, minimise, pathologise or make them prove their pain.
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My work is calm, practical and deeply human. It recognises that recovery after sexual trauma is not linear, tidy or easily contained in a six-week worksheet. It may involve the body, memory, relationships, nervous system, safety, shame, identity, trust, work, sex, friendship, family and the ability to feel present in your own life again.
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Through ReConnected Life, I create resources, programmes and professional materials that help survivors feel less alone and help organisations understand what survivor-centred support can look like in practice.
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Public voice and advocacy
I have written and spoken extensively about rape, sexual trauma, consent, justice, recovery, victim blaming and life after sexual violence.
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My work has appeared across national press and media, including The Telegraph, HuffPost, Metro, Stylist, Marie Claire, The Independent, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live, London Live and Channel 5. I contributed to the Channel 5 documentary Raped: My Story, which was nominated for a BAFTA and won a Royal Television Society award.
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I am also the editor of To Report or Not to Report: Survivor Testimony of the (In)Justice System, an anthology of survivor stories exploring the decision to report rape, or not, and the reality of the justice system for those who do.
Why ReConnected Life matters
ReConnected Life is built around a simple but powerful idea: after sexual trauma, people need more than survival.
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They need language. They need safety. They need tools they can return to. They need support that understands the body as well as the mind. They need to know that what happened to them was not their fault, that their responses make sense, and that recovery does not have to look like becoming who they were before.
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My work helps survivors reconnect with themselves at their own pace, without pressure to perform healing or package their experience neatly for anyone else’s comfort.
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For organisations, ReConnected Life offers a survivor-led perspective on trauma support, recovery resources, training, licensing and programme delivery. It is designed to help close the gap between what survivors are often offered and what they may actually need.
Press, speaking & collaboration
I am available for selected press comment, podcast interviews, speaking opportunities, survivor-led collaborations and organisational conversations around rape, sexual trauma, recovery, consent, justice and life after sexual violence.
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For enquiries, please contact Emily at hello@reconnected.life.
"It is so deeply comforting to be able to talk to someone who understands at such a fundamental level what I've gone through and how devastating it was – both the rape and its aftermath – and who can also offer such a message of hope for the future."
- Anonymous, Survivor
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