GUEST: Sarah Doucette Sarah is the author of Stronger Than That: A Domestic Violence Survivor Uncovers the Truth About Her Abuser. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Financial abuse, Religion as a factor in ...

GUESTS: Rachel Davis and Mary Lou Smith. Rachel, director of the public library in Cape Elizabeth, talks about her outwardly successful but abusive father and the impact that had on her and her brother. Mary Lou ...

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 abused by w...

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. ...

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

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: L...

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 ne...

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:...

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 ho...

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, an...

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.beautifu...

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 chi...

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 childr...

Guest: Caroline McKuenThe 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 herselfTopics: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when you are worried for...

Guests: Lora and Jeannine Lauber OrenA 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 financia...

Guest: AnonymousWhat 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: AnonymousHe 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: JoleneNo 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 Inte...

Guest: BethanyThis nurse’s ex has a 30-page criminal record and has violated protection from abuse orders 20 times with no consequences Topics: Uselessness of PFAs, do-nothing DAs, child abuse

Guest: Donna Kaz William (Body Heat) Hurt swept Donna off her feet when she was a young actress, and grew steadily more dangerous. Topics: Narcissists, fame as an enabler, career-sabotagingDonna is...

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: 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: Sons and fathers, sons and mother...

Guests: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and MarySix 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 ...