The first step to solving any problem is shining a light on it and that is what we are doing for the huge problem of domestic abuse with the Let's Talk About it Podcast. Hearing from the real experts, survivors, Patrisha McLean and her guests open eyes and blow minds on all kinds of topics involving domestic abuse, including how everything conspires to keep us silent and how perpetrator rights trump victim rights in family and criminal courts. We also explore the playbook that every abuser s ...
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Mary Kamradt is the 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. Issues discussed: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from children and grandchildren.Di Patrisha McLean
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Two parter. Ashley: How the Military made him abusive at home. Dezarae: How she was terrorized by the woman she loved.Di Patrisha McLean
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Caroline McKuen, director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council, talks about the criminal financial and sexual abuse by her pious ex, and how church elders minimized this. More information about the national nonprofit Caroline started to help other churchwomen avoid what she went through is here! https://www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org…
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Best friends Courtney and Jess discuss how Jess grew alarmed as Courtney’s new boyfriend slowly and steadily turned her into a shell of herself, and what Jess did to help rescue her.Di Patrisha McLean
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“Financial Abuse” conversation with Lora and Jeannine. Imagine financially supporting your abusive spouse, and then when you finally escape being ordered by the court to continue to give him money. Lora, a Maine nurse, talks about this happening to her and in part 2 of this episode Jeannine talks about about Maine legislation she helped get through…
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A woman wishing to remain anonymous relates what it was like having a childhood that seemed golden to the outside but inside the house, was a “living hell”.
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He strangled her, smothered her with a pillow, at gunpoint forced her to take a bottle of sleeping pills in what he said would be a double-suicide. He is out on bail pending trial.Di Patrisha McLean
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Jolene of the Lewiston, Maine area talks about how her ex was emboldened by police and courts to become scarier and scarier.Di Patrisha McLean
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Six survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year for moms and children when we are trapped with an angry and controlling family member. With Jolene's ex-husband in jail, her eight-year-old is having the first peaceful holiday season of her life.Di Patrisha
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Randall Liberty is Maine's Commissioner of Corrections, overseeing all prisons, jails and probationers in the state. Here, he talks with Patrisha about his father, beloved in the community and incarcerated for beating up his mother. He also talks about how the violence in the home impacted himself and his brothers.…
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Amy talks about how Maine courts and the Department of Health and Human Services worked overtime for three years to give full custody of her grand baby -- safe in the loving home of her daughter-- to a domestic violence felon.Di Patrisha McLean
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Jackie Lee McLean and the host of this podcast Patrisha McLean talk about how control and violence from father and husband impacted each other, as well as their mother/daughter relationship. They also talk about their journey to healing themselves and their relationship. Jackie is a mom of three, executive of an IT company, and singer-songwriter wh…
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Donna Kaz talks about being physically and emotionally brutalized by the sensitive late actor --and serial domestic abuser --William (Body Heat) Hurt, when she was in her early 20s. We also talk about the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial. Donna is a feminist activist and author of Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl on Tour https://www.amazon.com/MAS…
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Bethany talks about her 30-year odyssey of trying to get the terrorizing by her ex of her extended family to stop, with District Attorneys and judges dismissing of 19 separate occasions of violating restraining orders and conditions of release.Di Patrisha McLean
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