GUESTS: Jess, a nurse, talks about how drugs fueled escalating physical violence.When Mia was In her early 20s and living in the small Maine town in which we both reside, her boyfriend repeatedly beat her up publicly and no one said a word.

Episode 8: Courtney & Jess

Sep 9th, 2021 1h 1m

Best Friends Courtney and Jess: It was from admiring Courtney’s retro tattoo on a bench in a district court that I learned we we were both there to support the same friend, trying to get a protection from abuse order. She told me that in a matt

Episode 7: Rhonda & Ashley

Aug 26th, 2021 51m 21s

GUESTS: Rhonda and Ashley, mother and daughter: Rhonda reached out to me to tell me about the emotional terrorism she underwent in her marriage, and then her daughter hearing of her appearance on my show asked if she could join the conversation

Episode 6: Hannah

Jul 29th, 2021 49m 23s

GUEST: Hannah got pulled into a relationship when she was 30 with someone she knew from high school and it wasn’t long before he trapped through pregnancy, shame, and fear.

Episode 5: Tiffany

Jul 15th, 2021 54m 5s

Tiffany, from the Portland Maine area, talks about how her first romance with a woman went from exhilarating and liberating to scary, and how police in three departments let her down.

Episode 4: Jackie

Jul 1st, 2021 49m 54s

On this episode, Patrisha speaks to her daughter Jackie about the abuse she endured by her father.“There was a constant state of fear in the house about the slightest thing [that] would make my dad turn into a crazy person,” Read the article in

Episode 3: Kathi & Nicky

Jun 17th, 2021 52m 52s

GUESTS: Kathi and Nicky are business partners in a house-cleaning business and best friends. It was while cleaning my house and seeing Finding Our Voices paraphernalia that Nicky mentioned to me she had been sucked into a relationship with an o

Episode 2: Patti & Julie

Jun 3rd, 2021 57m 3s

Patti & Julie - Sisters Julie, a teacher and Patti, an airline pilot, talk about how Patti blamed Julie for years over the torment their parents and family were going through over Patti’s marriage to a sadistic, violent man. The discuss how Pa

Episode 1: Mandy

May 20th, 2021 52m 22s

GUEST: Mandy and I shared the same wonderful domestic abuse victim-advocate, Missy Fairfield of NextStepDVProject.org. We talk here about emotional abuse from her boyfriend starting when she was 15, steadily escalating over the next 20 years a

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