Let's Talk About It
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
31 episodes
No Justice, No Safety III
GUEST: AnonymousHe strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial! TOPICS DISCUSSED: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights...
Teen Dating Abuse
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.
When Your Abuser is Let Out Early From Prison to (Allegedly) Kill Another Woman
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
When You Become a Virtual Prisoner Because Your Ex Is Out On Early Release
GUESTS: Agnes BrackettAgnes discusses trying to keep her daughter safe from her gun-toting, fire-starting husband. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Child Abuse, Guns, Failure of Justice System
When You Break the Silence After 40 Years
GUEST: Vicki Murray, owner of Laugh Loud Smile Big bakeryVicki talks about what kept her silent and what it like to break her silence over 15 years of abuse including strangulation by the man she started dating at 17 years old.&nb...
When a Man is Abused by a Woman
GUEST: Anonymous (Male) Many similarities to abuse of a woman by a man are shared in this conversation with "Mark."TOPICS DISCUSSED: Emotional abuse, weaponizing of children, lack of resources for men abus...
How the Family Heals From Abuse
GUESTS: Rachel Davis and Mary Lou SmithTwo-Parter – Rachel: When You Grow Up With an Abusive Father; Mary Lou Celebrating 20 Years of FreedomTOPICS DISCUSSED: Abusive fathers, how siblings are impacted differently by...
Abuse is Worse During the Holidays
GUESTS: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and MarySix survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year.TOPICS DISCUSSED: The role alcohol plays in abuse, being ...
A Man Talks About His Violent Father
GUEST: Randall Liberty, Maine's Commissioner of CorrectionsRandy talks with Patrisha about the impact his father’s violence toward his mother had on him and his brothers. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Sons and ...
When The Rights of A Father Trumps the Safety of the Child
GUEST: Amy Maine officials worked overtime to give full custody of her baby granddaughter to a two-time domestic violence felon. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Family court dysfunction, child abuse, grandparental...
Mother & Daughter
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 DISCUSSED: Child abuse, narcissistic fath...
When Your Abuser is a Celebrity
GUESTS: Donna Kaz William (Body Heat) Hurt swept Donna off her feet when she was a young actress, and grew steadily more dangerous. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Narcissists, fame as an enabler, career-sabotag...
No Justice, No Safety I
GUEST: BethanyThis nurse’s ex has a 30-page criminal record and has violated protection from abuse orders 20 times with no consequences TOPICS DISCUSSED: Uselessness of PFAs, do-nothing DAs, child abuse
No Justice, No Safety II
GUEST: JoleneNo accountability from the courts and police make him scarier and scarier, to her, her children, the police and the public. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Criminal court reform, good ol’ boy network, the folly o...
It Happens in Rich Families, Too
GUESTS: AnonymousWhat it was like having a childhood that on the outside seemed golden and glamorous, and on the inside was a “living hell”.TOPICS DISCUSSED: Narcissistic fathers, living a lie, child abuse&nb...
Financial Abuse
GUESTS: Lora and Jeannine Lauber OrenTWO PARTER: Lora, 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...
Isolation and the Importance of Friends
GUESTS: Courtney Davis and Jess Jess introduced her best friend to him, then grew alarmed as he steadily turned Courtney into a shell of herselfTOPICS DISCUSSED: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when yo...
When Your Pastor Sides With Your Abuser
GUEST: Caroline McKuenThe director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse TOPICS DISCUSSED: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse...
Two-parter: The Military and Same Sex Abuse
GUESTS: Ashley and DezaraeAshley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend. TOPICS DISCUSSED: The military, same sex abuse, ...
When He Burns Everything to the Ground
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 DISCUSSED: Sexual abuse, arson, estra...
When Your Father Kills Your Mother
GUEST: Shelly Edwards JorgensenShelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesm...
Domestic Abuse and Religion
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...
Incarceration and Substance 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 ...