On this #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Sarah Strong, a protective parent and survivor of domestic violence and coercive control, a fitness instructor, a power lifter, and a health advocate. Sarah talks about her whirlwind romance with her ex-husband whom she met in March 2016, married three months later in June 2016, and divorced…
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On today’s show, our guest is Maria Santiago, a survivor of childhood domestic violence or family violence, a protective parent, and a decades long advocate for survivors of intimate partner violence. Maria is employed as a violence prevention educator in a NYC non-profit organization and works on elder justice reform in the Latino community as…
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On this #SurvivorStories Series episode, we speak with Lana, a protective mother whose failed plight to seek help from the legal and justice systems in New York City for her daughter has led her to find refuge in Russia. Lana describes the police, court and child welfare response when she first suspected her toddler daughter…
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In our #SurvivorStories Series episode, we feature “Caitlin”–a protective mother who shares custody of her two children with her ex-husband. Caitlin describes how her ex-husband’s behavior revealed signs of abuse that she didn’t want to acknowledge nor understand. As Caitlin began to realize that her relationship was one of psychological and emotional abuse, began to…
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In this #SurvivorSeries episode, we speak with Anita Gera, a protective mother from Great Britain. In 2014, Anita went to British government to seek protection against her abusive and controlling ex-husband, an American pilot who was based in Arizona. Over the next year, through her ex-husband’s misuse of the Hague Convention, Anita’s case brought her…
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