Post by Jacqueline Brooker CSP

This is Lesson #3 in my series of 10 Lessons from 10 Years After Being Cancelled At Scale You are not the only one. And that matters more than you think. As the stories broke in 2026 my ‘Advisors’ told me to book into an apartment under a different name and hide. And in that moment, even though I most definitely still had people around me, I felt absolutely and totally alone. I closed the door on that Apartment, under a different name, and closed the door on the outside world. I felt utterly and totally alone, unsure who to trust – and what to trust – whilst I watched a global media firestorm, especially online where I could see every headline, every comment, every single reaction, and kept getting swept into the vortex that my inbox became (1,100 trolling messages hit in one day at its worst). It was a vacuum that fed the isolation, especially because everywhere I looked it made me feel like I was alone; and every story I found in those first days, was of people who never recovered from being misjudged, from being cancelled, from the firestorm that takes over.   I was desperately searching for evidence that I could make it out of this alive. And this is what I now know to be true. Having found the work of Dr Michael Ungar, fallen into a deeply revealing conversation with a woman in Monument Valley, discovering Churchill’s political journey, reading book after book of the origin stories of some of the greatest people in history, hearing Julie Inman Grant PSM, and meeting Jo T., and more. That you are not alone. And you are most definitely not the first. That it is the shame of this experience convinces you that you are singular, uniquely broken, uniquely fallen. But we are not. We are not the only ones, and the moment I understood that, shame started to loosen it’s grip and recovery could finally begin. And so wherever you are, whoever you are, know this. You are not the only one. You are not the first. And I hope that just how much that matters is something you never have to discover. 💬💬 💬 Jacqueline Brooker, nee Nagle, is a fierce advocate for both the power and impact of our words, having been cancelled at scale in 2016. As the 10 year anniversary of those events approaches she has decided to share the most important 10 lessons these 10 years have delivered