Dealing with COVID-19 Triggers
By Jenn Rockefeller The current COVID-19 pandemic has kept many domestic violence survivors in their homes and changed the way we live. These changes have elicited triggers that can bring a survivor through varying degrees of challenges while fighting to survive and thrive post-abuse. Triggers Survivors Face Domestic violence survivors will no doubt face numerous […]
How to Keep Your Children Centered During Upheaval
By MaryBeth Koenes As a life coach and mother, I have encountered a lot of parents asking for tools to help them not only cope with the recent routine upheavals due to COVID-19, but also to support their children’s mental and emotional health through the sudden, radical life changes. Whether it’s due to a global […]
I Still Have the Scars but I Will Always Wear Them with Pride
Criminal harassment, forcible confinement, assault, gaslighting, manipulation, psychological abuse are all terms that I had come across in my life. They were terms that I was familiar with on a need-to-know basis. As it turns out, I did not know enough about any of them until I somehow landed smack dab in the middle of it all.
Physical and Emotional Safety Planning During a Pandemic
Nurse Appreciation: How Nurses Support Victims of Domestic Violence
“Surviving Silence: Escaping the Shadows of an Abusive Relationship”
I don’t have pictures of the times he strangled me, beat me with a metal tool, or tried to kill me. Nor do I have proof he pushed me into a closet or damaged my property. The time for being silent is over.
