Let's Talk About It

GUEST: Jackie Lee McLean 

The host of this Podcast talks with her daughter about how the abuse impacted them separately and also together and their path to healing.

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Child abuse, narcissistic fathers, triangulation 

Jackie is an executive of an IT company, and singer-songwriter who provides the music for this Podcast. More of Jackie's Music here.

GUESTS: Darcia and Dezarae

Darcia and Dezarae discuss how the “sweetest man in the world” in prison turned evil upon release.

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Failed judicial system, strangulation, impact on children

Guests: Laudan Ghayebi, Bethany McInnis, Mary Kamradt, Amy Thomsen, Mary Lou Smith, and Sydney 

Description: How the medical community did and did not come to our aid when we were suffering from domestic abuse. 

Topics discussed: How emotional abuse leads to physical ills, physical abuse, kind and unkind doctors

Guest: Sharon Kennedy

In 2020 Sharon Kennedy was convicted of depraved indifference murder for the death of her 10 year old daughter Marissa. No physical evidence tied her to this murder and she maintains her innocence. 

She did not testify at her trial and in this conversation with Patrisha breaks her silence about the coercive control and domestic abuse she and Marissa endured at the hands of her ex Julio, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison on the same charge.

Julio, according to Sharon's father, "changed Sharon from the caring loving mother we all knew into a scared, domineered shell of her former self." 

Topics discussed: Coercive control, child abuse, incarceration

GUEST: Katherine Erbes

Katherine talks about almost being killed by her ex to see him get a plea deal and, four years after his release from prison, almost kill another woman.

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Media abuse, sexual abuse, need for tougher DV sentencing

GUESTS: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and Mary

Six survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:  The role alcohol plays in abuse, being let down by the court system, child abuse

GUEST: Liz Eckman 

Liz spoke to a Portland Press Herald reporter in 2022 to break the silence of her ex's arrest, and also lift the stigma surrounding domestic abuse. Read the article here. 

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Victim rights being ignored by courts, City government staying silent about domestic abuse charges against one of their own, dangers of DV strangulation, importance of survivors speaking out.

GUEST: Sarah Doucette 

Sarah is the author of Stronger Than That: A Domestic Violence Survivor Uncovers the Truth About Her Abuser. 

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Financial abuse, Religion as a factor in staying in an abusive marriage 

GUESTS: Rachel Davis and Mary Lou Smith

Two-Parter – Rachel: When You Grow Up With an Abusive Father; Mary Lou Celebrating 20 Years of Freedom

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Abusive fathers, how siblings are impacted differently by abuse, breaking the cycle. 

GUEST:  Anonymous (Male) 

Many similarities to abuse of a woman by a man are shared in this conversation with "Mark."

TOPICS DISCUSSED: Emotional abuse, weaponizing of children, lack of resources for men abused by women.