emotional abuse

Episode 41: en(gender)ed Reflections on healing from abuse

In this “Reflections” episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on the past six #SurvivorStories – Episode 30, with Anita Gera and the misuse of the Hague Convention to harm children, Episode 31, with “Caitlin” and the danger of shared parenting with an abuser, Episode 32, with Lana and her “Sophie’s Choice” to protect her daughter from…

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Episode 40: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on domestic violence, trauma, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection

Our guest today is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma…

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Episode 39: Trauma therapist Julia Hochstadt on working with survivors of abuse and violence

Our guest today is Julia Hochstadt, a therapist with over twenty years of expertise in working with victims of crime, trauma and interpersonal violence, including child abuse, rape and sexual assault and domestic violence. Before working in private practice, Julia led New York Presbyterian’s Victim Intervention Program (VIP) providing acute emergency room support, counseling, and…

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Episode 38: Dr. Tanja Jovanovic on how witnessing abuse is just as bad for children as being abused

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Dr. Tanja Jovanovic, Director of the Grady Trauma Project and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.   Dr. Jovanovic’s current research program focuses on the Interaction of traumatic experiences, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and genetic risk factors in mentor disorders in adults…

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Episode 37: #SurvivorStories Series with Sarah Strong on mitigating coercive parenting by an abuser

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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