Anxiety After Abuse: Reclaiming Peace Through DBT Skills
By Kelly Stratton DBT skills can help you cope with abuse after the fact. Getting out of an abusive relationship is often seen as the finish line—but for many survivors, it’s just the beginning of the healing process. Long after the physical danger ends, the emotional wounds remain. Living with Effects of Abuse One of […]
Society Protects the Wrong People with Abusers in Power
By Sammie Rose After a brief hiatus from Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence, I stepped back to prioritize, recollect, and regroup the quiet but essential work of healing. Caring for my children, tending to my inner world, and making space to process my current day reality. As I grappled with life and dealt with […]
Anxiety is the Lingering Shadow of Being Controlled
By Iris Pendelton For many, anxiety is often pictured as simple nervousness, a racing heart before a presentation. Or feeling uneasy in a crowd. But for survivors of abusive relationships, anxiety takes on a far more complex and often invisible shape. It lingers long after the abuse ends. Weaving itself into everyday thoughts, decisions, and […]
Communication is Key to Helping You Heal from DV
By Mikayla Shave While communication is widely observed to be central to the implementation process, the field of implementation science has largely overlooked the details of how communication may be utilized to better facilitate implementation. Within organizational changes such as intimate partnership changes, employment changes, and potentially educational changes, communication has been observed outside of […]
What Is Run4Her and Why Should You Sign Up?
By Hanna Embry Break the silence against domestic violence does a lot of fundraising, and Run4Her is one of our biggest events. This not only helps survivors of domestic violence, but it also makes our outreach programs reach so much further. So, what is Run4Her? Why does it matter? Who does it help? Run4Her is […]
Leaving an Abuser while Pregnant and the Financial Impacts
By Hanna Embry The financial impact, and overall impact of leaving your abuser can be incredibly overwhelming. Especially when you’re pregnant, or have a newborn. Financial abuse, or economic abuse is when one partner, typically in an intimate partner, has control and power over the relationship’s finances. When the abuser takes away the partner’s means […]