Mary Faltz

About Mary

 

Dr. Mary Faltz is a clinical research scientist and an accredited pharmacist. The second born in a family of six children, she is a survivor of child sexual abuse that lasted 16 years.

Pushed to the extreme by her abuser, she finally gathered all her courage and pressed charges when she turned 26.

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International Women’s Day 2022 

Orange Week 2021 

Octobre rose Fashion show 2024

Labels in society (TEDx Luxembourg 2021)

TEDx Luxembourg (December 2021)

Live chat 2020 (still in chemotherapy – cancer survival uncertain)

Conférence (Banque de Luxembourg) 2023

1 enfant sur 5

Conférence (Banque de Luxembourg) 2023

‘Pourquoi n’as-tu rien dit plus tôt ?’

THE BOOKs

Cruelly Betrayed

I put my own father in prison. 16 years of sexual abuse and threats. 16 years of fear and silence. 16 years of forced smiles and resilience. 10 years of studies. 7 years of pregnancy. 4 years of criminal trials. 10 years of marriage. 5 years of deception. Half a year of cancer…and only 37 years old.

There was no time to ask ‘Why me ?’. Facing my own mortality made me realise that a big chapter of my life was not over yet and that I was not as free as I thought I was. These pages have written themselves in the middle of a still, ongoing heavy storm.

Nicolas, a charismatic Christian figure, a sacrificing husband, and a hailed hero. But who is Nicolas really? What is hiding behind the smile of this seemingly generous father of six? What is his darkest secret?

Following her mother’s death, Mary felt the urgent need to understand exactly what had happened to her estranged mother. She embarked on a painful quest to dig up 30 years of archives, but what she discovered was beyond anything she could ever have imagined…

News & BLOG

not all disabilities are visible

Isn’t society funny and so very paradoxical? While going through any hardship (aka life’s panoply of shits), society wants you to be ‘positive’, smile more, complain less…..but please not too positive. Allow me to elaborate. Not all disabilities are visible to the...

Nice to meet you, Pippi!

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Conférence-Débat Lycée Edward Steichen Clervaux le 26 septembre 2024

Conférence-débat au Lycée Edward Steichen - Ecole internationale Edward Steichen organisé en collaboration avec la commune de Clervaux Un grand grand Bravo à Léini, élève d’une 3e CC qui a assuré la modération de l’évènement comme une pro - le Public speaking, un soft...

Gratitude is key to Happiness

My 3-monthly lease on this beautiful thing called *Life* has been renewed🥰

Conférence au Lycée Technique Agricole le 5 mars 2025

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WORT Video-Interview 7.12.2021

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There are no winners or losers in cancer

There are no losers or winners when it comes to cancer.   With a diagnosis, you get catapulted from one day to the other without warning into this unknown horrible fearful parallel world of cancer.   It is a world filled with intense fear, anxiety, anger, hope,...

Happy 4th Birthday to me!

Happy 4th Birthday to me!🥰🥂🍾🎂🎈 No words will ever do justice to the immense gratitude I feel to still be allowed to wake up every single day. I have never LIVED but have spent all my life since my childhood high on adrenaline and cortisol in extreme survival mode....

Reviews

A powerful, captivating testimony of human resilience in the face of multiple life traumas.

Jane McLelland

Award-winning, Bestselling author of How To Starve Cancer and a Stage IV cancer survivor of 26 years

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