Introducing "Legal Abuse Explained," a new collaborative podcast between Ingrid Dutton of the "1 in 3" podcast and Karen Tosoni, CEO of After Awareness. Together they're creating a vital resource dedicated to understanding legal abuse—a pervasive issue that remains shrouded in misunderstanding despite affecting countless lives.
• Partnership formed serendipitously when Ingrid and Karen met at PodFest
• Legal abuse often manifests disguised as legitimate legal action but with intent to control and harm
• The podcast will explore Legal Abuse Syndrome, a recognized psychological trauma many aren't aware of
• After Awareness uses the LEAF system (Legal, Emotional And Financial) to address all aspects of recovery
• Upcoming episodes will feature experts including therapists and legal professionals
• Content serves both survivors and the professionals who support them
We invite you to join us whether you're looking to understand, heal, or advocate—you are not alone in this journey.
For more information, check out https://afterawareness.org/
Episode Transcript
Welcome, welcome, welcome to a brand new podcast
that I am so excited about.
I'm Ingrid Dutton, host of the1 in 3 podcast, and today I am
thrilled to introduce you to acollaboration that's been a long
time coming.
For years, on One in Three, Ihave shared stories that explore
the hidden battles many face,often in silence, and in that
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journey, one pervasive anddevastating issue kept surfacing
legal abuse.
It's a topic that touches somany lives, yet remains shrouded
in misunderstanding and shame.
That's why I'm so honored to bepartnering with After Awareness
, an organization dedicated toshedding the light on these
critical issues and offeringpathways to healing.
(00:55):
Together, we've created LegalAbuse Explained.
Joining me right now is CEO andco-founder of After Awareness,
karen Tasani.
Karen, how did we meet?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh my goodness, it was just a godsend.
We were both at the same tableat the PodFest and we were both
waiting in line and we bothlooked at each other and started
conversation.
And here we are what a year anda half later when we met.
We basically both have incommon with domestic violence
and talking about legal abuseand how it overlaps into
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domestic violence, and you werealready doing your podcast, one
in Three, which is wonderful.
I've been following you andAfter, awareness really wants to
focus on legal abuse alone andsince there's like nine forums,
we felt a podcast was a reallygood way to get that out there.
Legal Abuse Explains is notjust another podcast.
(01:50):
It's a vital resource forsharing multifaceted topics, of
providing hope that experts canshare to survivors on topics
with our system.
We have in place is called theLeaf, which is L-E-A-F, which is
legal, legal, emotional andfinancial, and so with that
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balance in one, we wanted tobuild awareness on what that
means and how this impacts thesurvivor, their family and the
community.
Thank you, and I'm so excitedand thank you, podfest, and I'm
looking forward to January'snext PodFest.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Absolutely.
And so, in these upcomingepisodes, we're going to dive
deep into the very core of legalabuse.
We'll explore what it truly is,how it manifests, often
disguised as legitimate legalaction, but with the intent to
harm, control and exhaust.
We'll unpack the concept oflegal abuse syndrome, a
recognized psychologicalphenomenon that describes a
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profound and often long-lastingtrauma experienced by those
targeted, which many are noteven aware of, let alone its
effects.
Right, Correct.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, and it's very crucial for the audience to
understand the crossovers andhow legal abuse is a form, and
can be a form, of domesticviolence not always, but when it
does, to understand how it fits.
And it's just really all aboutbeing aware and hence, after
awareness is when someone isaware that we are here to help
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them self-advocate.
That is really the whole.
You know, having our podcasthelps with experts providing
that information and so, yeah, Ithink this is really amazing
where your expertise inpodcasting has really come
through and the topics canoverlap, and I hope somebody
(03:41):
would want to watch the one inthree podcast, where the
survivors are able to sharestories and examples and our
experts in our podcast canactually give some enlightenment
to the topics, so maybe someonecan relate to that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, I'm really truly excited about this podcast
because legal abuse, like Isaid, is something that's really
not understood and I think thatI'm going to learn a lot from
all of the professionals, thetherapists, the legal experts,
everyone that's going to becoming on as a guest to Legal
Abuse Explained.
I think I will be learning alot myself and hopefully I can
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carry over some of thatknowledge to the one in three
listeners.
So really, this podcast is foranyone that might be
experiencing legal abuse and fortheir friends and family or
even professionals, right,Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And I think that's really important to make sure
that even professionals outthere this is such a new.
The history is this has beenaround forever, but we're really
getting educated and expertsalone are getting the
information they need to help.
Even, for example, counselorsmay or may not be aware of the
term legal abuse syndrome, andthis is like a growing learning
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and understanding how we canhelp each other.
So as we learn, as we educate,as we meet experts, as experts
can help each other through thedirectories and just being able
to educate not only thesurvivors but the victim
advocates and legal advocatesand people that are there to
help.
This is such a collaborationand I hope our podcast can open
(05:18):
that up.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, so whether you're joining to understand,
heal or advocate, know that youare not alone.
And thank you for tuning in toLegal Abuse Explained.
Let's begin this importantconversation.
Awesome, thank you so much.
Thank you.
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