DOZ Issue 45 July 2019 | Page 14

DOZ Show Preferred Guest Gee Patchett Interview by Eturuvie Erebor (AKA Gabriella) G ee Patchett is our DOZ Show Preferred Guest for this issue of DOZ Magazine. As a young girl, Gee believed that the only way out of her home situation was to get married. She married at 16 and soon discovered that marriage was not the fairy tale she had read in books. For more than two decades that followed, she suffered many different forms of abuse in her personal life. Her experience was not in vain as it prepared her to work with survivors of sexual abuse. She is the founder of Transformation Powerhouse, a ministry which is built on Christian principles to be a “Healing Centre,” empowering and supporting women and teenage girls who have been victims of sexual abuse. The Centre aims to provide group and one-to-one support on-site. She believes that as a society, we cannot continue to allow the issue of sexual abuse to be covered up. If you have suffered any form of abuse or adversity, Gee is living proof that you can turn it to gain and reach out to help others. Read her story and be inspired to find the purpose in your pain. DOZ Magazine | July 2019 14