In 2019, Sharon  co-chaired the Lived Experience Session at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference at Royal Pines alongside Broken to Brilliant™, the organisation where her journey as an author first began through the anthology Shattered to Shining.

That experience marked the beginning of publicly sharing Sharon's lived experience to help raise awareness of the lifelong impact domestic and family violence has on children, families, identity, and the nervous system long after the violence has ended.

In 2025, Sharon returned to the conference as a presenter with Unravelling the Silence – The Lifelong Impact of Childhood Domestic Violence, a deeply personal and trauma-informed presentation exploring survival responses, dissociation, emotional suppression, and the hidden ways trauma is carried through the body across a lifetime.

Central to Sharon's work is the concept of Growth Beyond the Silence — recognising that healing is not about erasing the past, but understanding what the body learned in order to reclaim safety, voice, connection, identity, and post-traumatic growth. My presentations invite deeper conversations around lived experience, nervous system awareness, survival intelligence (resilience), and the importance of creating spaces where survivors feel seen, heard, and believed.

In 2026, Sharon presented What the Body Learned – A Lived Experience of Holistic Recovery from Childhood Domestic Violence at the Australian Domestic Family Sexual Violence Alliance Forum in Brisbane.

Drawing from both lived experience and years working within trauma-informed community services, Sharon explored the lifelong impact childhood domestic violence can have on the body, nervous system, identity, emotional regulation, relationships, and survival responses.

The presentation examined key areas including hypervigilance, emotional suppression, chronic stress responses, dissociation, shame, burnout, people-pleasing, and the ways trauma can shape a person’s sense of safety, connection, and self-worth well into adulthood. It also highlighted the impact childhood trauma can have on children’s brain development, emotional regulation, learning, and behaviour when survival becomes the body’s primary focus.

Sharon’s presentation advocates for greater trauma-informed awareness across systems, services, education, and community spaces, encouraging professionals to look beyond behaviours and understand the survival patterns often sitting underneath them.