Tag Archive for: Coercive Relationships

GRIEF AS PART OF HEALING

Grief is always a normal and important part of healing for intimate partner abuse survivors.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE HEALING: SEE THE RED AND YELLOW LIGHTS

Here are some questions whose answers offer clues about whether you are dealing with someone who is emotionally abusive. Proceed with caution and talk about it if you don’t like what you see.

Should Coercive Control Be a Crime?

It’s Not Against the Law If you have experienced coercive control, you know the devastating effects. Those who feel entitled to use it strip away our freedom of expression, limiting what we can do and say. It damages our sense of self-worth. It increases self-doubt. We often say we feel crazy because of the intense […]

I Did It!

Next steps are always scary. We don’t know what they will be like—not really—until we take them. Each of the paths listed above encompasses many steps. We can set off, but we cannot outline each step, each curve, each boulder along the way, and when we think we have to, it stops us from ever setting off.