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Patrisha McLean talks with the real experts of domestic abuse--survivors. Patrisha survived a 29 year abusive marriage to a celebrity, and CEO and Founder of Finding Our Voices https://findingourvoices.net/ Music is by Jackie McLean Strack, the host’s daughter.
Episodes
Guests: Agnes Brackett
Agnes discusses trying to keep her daughter safe from her gun-toting, fire-starting husband.
Topics discussed: Child Abuse, Guns, Failure of Justice System
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
Guest: Lilly DesRoberts – Lilly, a 20-year-old UNE Biddeford pre-dental student, talks about how cyber-stalking and suicide threats by her boyfriend from high school plagued her first year of college.
Topics: Life360 cyber-stalking, suicide threats, alcohol, failure of judicial court system
Guest: Kerry Smith – Kerry talks about the preventable DV murders of mother and daughter Jennie and Lisa Bailey in Bath.
Topics include: Police response to DV, Veteran’s Administration response to DV, systemic changes needed
Guests: Michelle, Kerry, Amber – Michelle, a communications executive talks about an early marriage that almost killed her. Kerry and Amber talk about their best friends who were murdered by DV this year.
Topics include: Financial abuse, guns, family impact of abuse
Guest: Melody – Melody, a Mi’kmaq native, realized when she connected with Finding Our Voices that domestic abuse is at the root of her substance abuse as well as incarceration. She talks here about how she transcended both to become a wellbriety coach and published author.
Topics include: Incarceration, Substance Abuse, Native culture
Guests: Anonymous and Jennifer.
Two-parter about how religion helped to trap both women in domestic abuse and made it harder to get out.
“Anonymous" talks about the Cantor who refused to give her a Get for a divorce, and Jennifer talks about the pious-acting husband who was anything but.
Guest: Shelly Edwards Jorgensen.
Shelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesmemoir.com/books/
Topics: Child abuse, Siblings, Arson
Guest: Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices.
Her home was destroyed and dog killed in a fire set by her ex, and her family sided with him.
Topics: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from children and grandchildren.
Guests: Ashley and Dezarae.
Ashley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend.
Topics: The military, same sex abuse, impact on children
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.
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 Eco...
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
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: The role alcohol plays in abuse, being let down by the court system, child abuse
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: 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: 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.
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