Since October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this month’s article is about defining what exactly domestic violence is. We often hear “it can’t be domestic violence…he doesn’t hit me”. “It’s not domestic violence…we’re married, and he just likes to know where I am at all times and give me an allowance”.
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Haven FYI – Friday, September 21, 2022
Have you been in an abusive environment growing up or an abusive relationship? Even if they aren’t physically violent with you, they could still be abusing you through gaslighting, emotional abuse, narcissistic abuse, verbal abuse, psychological abuse, and more. Sometimes what we experience in a toxic relationship can cause us to develop unhealed trauma or CPTSD. To help you be more aware of these psychological scars, we made this video on the signs of people who might have been abused.
Haven FYI- Friday September 16, 2022
Rachel Louise Snyder the author of, “No Visible Bruises, What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us,” spoke at a conference I attended. I found the following excerpt from her book eye-opening on the victim’s perspective of protective orders and the common practice of recanting reported abuse to law enforcement. How would it feel to have a bear after you?
Haven FYI – Friday, September 2, 2022
This week our FYI is focused on what domestic violence is and how to identify the common signs of domestic violence. Often, it comes in subtle ways we don’t realize that build over time.
