What does it take to reclaim your life after years of emotional and financial abuse?
In this episode of The Divergence Room, Peter sits down with author and advocate Amanda J. Scott for a deeply honest conversation about surviving abuse, rebuilding identity, and finding the courage to start again. After 17 years of emotional and financial abuse, Amanda faced the daunting challenge of leaving while isolated from her support network, with limited access to money and two teenage daughters to protect.
Drawing from her memoir Finding My Way Back to Me, Amanda shares what finally gave her the courage to leave, the realities of rebuilding a life after prolonged abuse, and why shame and normalization can make it so difficult for victims to recognize that they deserve something different.
The conversation also explores the emotional aftermath of abuse, the danger of allowing anger and resentment to reshape who you are, and how healing can begin when you stop blaming yourself and start reclaiming your sense of worth.
A powerful conversation about courage, recovery, self-worth, and discovering that it is never too late to find your way back to yourself.