Tag: empowerment
Posted on April 23, 2022
by Janna
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I don’t have any degrees. I’ve no formal education. Oh, I had a plan for college. Took some early classes that didn’t go anywhere. Dreamed of this career or that and had a fuzzy view of the future for myself but then, simply put,… Continue Reading “No Formal Education Needed to Survive and Thrive”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse, college, control, dreams canceled, DV, education, empowerment, healing, post-secondary education, survival
Posted on April 20, 2022
by Janna
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You. Woman with so much on your plate, I see you. Because while your journey may not run parallel to mine, I know how heavy the burden gets. We are …running a household, maybe with a helpful partner, maybe without one at all. Either… Continue Reading “I Will If You Will”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: education, empowerment, healing, heavy load, life after abuse, responsibility, single mom, single parenting, strength, survivor
Posted on April 8, 2022
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Step 1: Listen to that tiny voice when it says you deserve better. Step 2: Internalize that you need to leave. Step 3: Figure out a way to leave, then leave. Or leave even without a clear plan. Whatever it takes, hopefully with a… Continue Reading “How to Deal with Abuse”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse, domestic abuse, DV, education, empowerment, healing, starting over after abuse, survivor
Posted on April 6, 2022
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Those who have never experienced an abusive relationship assume that at the inception of one they would take charge and respond with empowerment immediately. “I would NEVER allow that.” But a domestic abuse truth is that its victims are groomed and conditioned from the… Continue Reading “A Note for Survivor Supporters”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: conditioning, control, domestic abuse, DV, education, empowerment, healing, physical violence
Posted on March 16, 2022
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It’s probably not your advice Can we stop averting our eyes and pretending that survivors don’t really have it all that bad and asking women to “just get over it” and “move on” when the truth is that the conditioning and consequences from emotional,… Continue Reading “What DV Survivors Need”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse, abuse of women, abuse survivors, abuser, abusive behavior, abusive men, abusive relationships, addressing the past, Advice, advocacy, Advocacy & Education, advocating, after abuse, brainwashing, breakups, DV, empowerment, healing
Posted on January 9, 2022
by Janna
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We’ve talked about it before, about how we are shamed and scared into silence by our abusers and our attorneys and the family courts system. We’ve also talked about how being too bold with what we share, especially if we’re involved with family court,… Continue Reading “To Be or Not to Be Quiet About Abuse”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, advocacy, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, empowerment, gaslighting, healing, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, sharing, silence, starting over after abuse, survivor
Posted on December 5, 2021
by Janna
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There’s a pattern. Some will read this as broad generalization, but the patterns exist because of the patriarchy, because of domestic and financial abuse, and because of how family courts cater to the men who lie about their income and ability to provide for… Continue Reading “Are single men and dads financially abused?”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: court abuse, domestic abuse, Domestic Violence, DV, education, emotional abuse, empowerment, enabling, family courts system, financial abuse, gaslighting, healing, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, patterns, starting over after abuse, survivor, the patriarchy
Posted on November 23, 2021
by Janna
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You know those ax throwing places? Hear me out. It’s like that except only for DV survivors, and it’s a three-parter… Room 1 is filled with quiet, kind chefs who walk you through a recipe, from selection to completion. You take pictures of your… Continue Reading “Throw Meatloaf, Not Axes”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, domestic abuse, Domestic Violence, emotional abuse, empowerment, healing, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, self-help, starting over after abuse, survivor
Posted on January 2, 2021
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A DV CASEWORKER MISTREATS A CLIENT | Mama M from Kentucky says, “My question is in regard to staying in a domestic violence shelter. What do you do when you’re mistreated by one of the caseworkers? They mocked me and played psychological warfare to… Continue Reading “Caseworker Mistreatment”
Category: Advice, Advocacy & Education, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, advocacy, advocating, domestic abuse, Domestic Violence, DV, DV caseworkers, DV shelters, empowerment, self-empowerment