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: 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 

Guest: Randall Liberty,  Maine's Commissioner of Corrections

Randy talks with Patrisha about the impact his father’s violence toward his mother had on him and his brothers. 

Topics: Sons and fathers, sons and mothers, the importance of prison for violent abusers

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.