Smash Life

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Andy and Matt Smith are brothers who were placed into the UK care system by Social Services after neglectful parenting by their biological parents. Following their placement, they were subjected to unrelenting emotional and physical abuse over an eight-year period from 1990-1998 by the very people who had been charged with their care.

As a result of their trauma, both brothers experienced pent up anger, low self-esteem, feelings of loneliness and suicidal thoughts, originating from the abuse that they had suffered during childhood. This culminated in brushes with the law, failed relationships, huge debt, violence, anxiety, depression, OCD and also impacted on the brothers own sibling relationship.

Over the years since the abuse, Matt and Andy found separate coping mechanisms in music and sport respectively and both found their way into careers supporting children and young people.

In 2018 the brothers united to found the company “Smash Life”. Drawing on the hard lessons that they had learnt from their own abuse and experience of the care system; as well as their combined 38 years professional experience working with young people and families, they set about building an organisation to help those in similar situations.

Offering their own inspirational talks and training to young people and organisations the brothers are able to provide a unique insight into real life lived within the care system.

Their hope is that Smash Life can be used as a support tool by Education, Organisations, Parents, Councils and the Care System, to help prevent children and young people from ever having to experience what they went through.

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