Emily Jacob

Emily Jacob founded ReConnected Life to address a gap that too many survivors experience: the months-long wait between sexual trauma and structured support.
After her own experience of sexual violence, Emily navigated the reality that many women face; disclosure is met with waiting lists, not pathways. While systems activate around survivors (police, processes, decisions), stabilisation often doesn't. Women are expected to tell their stories repeatedly before they feel safe enough to hold them.
ReConnected Life exists to change that.
The Work
ReConnected Life provides trauma-informed recovery programmes that help women stabilise, understand their nervous systems, and rebuild their lives after sexual trauma, without waiting for permission or formal services to make space.
The programmes bridge the gap between disclosure and therapy, offering nervous system education, grounding skills, and structured self-paced learning that survivors can access immediately.
Over 10,000 survivors have used ReConnected Life programmes. More than 20 UK charities, Sexual Assault Referral Centres, and universities now license the work, embedding it into their support pathways.
The Approach
Emily's work sits at the intersection of lived experience and systems expertise. With 25+ years of leadership within complex institutions including NatWest, KPMG, Microsoft, Vodafone, and O2, she understands both the embodied reality of trauma recovery and the structural barriers survivors must navigate.
Her leadership style mirrors the brand she's built:
Calm. Direct. Grounded. Strategic.
Not reactive activism.
Not soft-focus wellness.
But structured, steady transformation.
ReConnected Life doesn't shout. But it won't stay silent either.
Beyond the Business
Emily is autistic, queer, and lives with MS. She's a certified trauma recovery coach and Master NLP practitioner. Her book Desperately Hopeful documents her recovery journey, and she edited To Report Or Not To Report, a collection examining survivors' experiences with the criminal justice system.
She was featured in the BAFTA-nominated Channel 5 documentary Raped: My Story.
Emily speaks at professional conferences and advocates for systemic change so that support is available when survivors need it most, not months later.
Why It Matters
ReConnected Life operates on a simple principle: healing should not have to wait.
Not for justice outcomes.
Not for waiting lists.
Not for permission.
Stability comes before storytelling. And survivors deserve pathways, not just validation.
Emily is building those pathways, one programme, one partnership, one stabilised nervous system at a time.