Guest: Caroline McKuen

The director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse 

Topics: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse.

https://www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org

Guests: Courtney Davis and Jess 

Jess introduced her best friend to him, then grew alarmed as he steadily turned Courtney into a shell of herself

Topics: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when you are worried for a loved one

Short film on Courtney here.

Guests: Lora and Jeannine Lauber Oren

A Maine nurse talks about financial abuse continuing with the divorce. Then Jeannine Lauber Oren of Finding Our Voices talks about the Maine law she helped get through to help mitigate financial abuse.

Topics: Financial abuse, sexual abuse, divorce hell

More about Jeannine is here. The law Jeannine helped to pass is here:  H.P. 553 - L.D. 748 law, "An Act To Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse".

Guest: Anonymous

What it was like having a childhood that on the outside seemed golden and glamourous, and on the inside was a “living hell”.

Topics: Narcissistic fathers, living a lie, child abuse 

Guest: Anonymous

He strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial! 

Topics: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights, bail reform 

Guest: Jolene

No accountability from the courts and police make him scarier and scarier, to her, her children, the police and the public. 

Topics: Criminal court reform, good ol’ boy network, the folly of Batterer’s Intervention 

Guest: Bethany

This nurse’s ex has a 30-page criminal record and has violated protection from abuse orders 20 times with no consequences 

Topics: Uselessness of PFAs, do-nothing DAs, child abuse

Guest: Donna Kaz 

William (Body Heat) Hurt swept Donna off her feet when she was a young actress, and grew steadily more dangerous. 

Topics: Narcissists, fame as an enabler, career-sabotaging

Donna is a feminist activist and author of Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl on Tour https://www.amazon.com/MASKED-Memoirs-Guerrilla-Girl-Tour/dp/1510709436

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/donna-kaz-william-hurt-former-partner-surviving-abuse-1235208312/

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: 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.

Guest: Amy 

Maine officials worked overtime to give full custody of her baby granddaughter to a two-time domestic violence felon. 

Topics: Family court dysfunction, child abuse, grandparental rights