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Hang In There
Hang In There is a powerful podcast dedicated to raising awareness about domestic abuse and the importance of mental health. Through real stories of survival and resilience, we share the journeys of those who have overcome unimaginable challenges and found strength in the face of adversity.
Our mission is to spread strength, offer hope, support, and a sense of community for anyone affected by abuse. Each episode highlights the courage it takes to break free, heal, and thrive, while also providing practical advice and resources to help listeners on their own paths to recovery.
Join us as we empower voices, challenge silence, and cultivate a space where healing and growth are possible. No one is alone – together, we can spread strength and create lasting change.
While we are not mental health experts, the advice and content we share comes from real-life experiences and trusted resources to help guide and support your journey.
Episodes
29 episodes
28. Beyond Coercive Control: To Myself: I Still Love Her
"I see clearly now. And I still love her."Two voices share this episode. One is inside the story, young, hopeful, learning what love is supposed to feel like. The other is watching her. Quietly. From a place of hard-won clarity. Not to w...
27. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Parents- You Loved Me Through It
"You weren't silent because you approved. You were silent because you loved me."Walking into a small entryway. Physically and emotionally exhausted. Carrying bags, holding onto dogs, trying to hold onto the kids. Trying to hold ...
26. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Siblings- Finding Our Way Back
"It can disrupt what you have. It can damage it. It doesn't erase what was real."There's a photograph I think about sometimes.All of us at the end of the driveway. Shorts and smiles. Not a care in the world.I didn'...
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25. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Partner- What Safe Love Feels Like
"Something in me began again. And this time, I wasn't imagining it. I was living it."For years, she dreamed of a different life while lying on a basement floor.Someone kind. Someone steady. Someone she could trust. Someon...
24. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Children- You Deserved Better
"You felt 30 years old when you were only 10. And I am so sorry."In this episode, a mother writes a letter to her children. To the ones who grew up inside something they didn't have words for, but felt in their bodies every sing...
23. Coercive Control: Finding the Words with Dr. Christine Cocchiola
"If it could happen to me, it can happen to anyone." - Dr. Christine CocchiolaIn this episode, your host sits down with Dr. Christine Cocchiola, one of the most trusted voices in the field of coercive control, for a conversation about so...
22. To Those Still Surviving: We Haven't Forgotten You
A message to the survivors who are still living inside abuse- You are not forgotten.This episode of Hang In There is dedicated to the survivors who are still living inside abuse.To those who cannot safely leave yet...
21. What PTSD Looks Like From the Inside: One Survivor's Hour-by-Hour Journey Through an Ordinary Day
"From the outside, it can look like someone simply went to work. They showed up. They did their job. They made it through the day."In this episode, you are walked through one ordinary day as a trauma survivor, hour by hour, from the mome...
20. I Didn't Lose Myself - I Adapted: Reclaiming Your Identity and Who You Were Before the Abuse
"I'm nearly 50 years old and only recently allowed to work on myself."This episode explores one of the most profound questions a survivor can ask: "Who am I now?" Not who I had to be. Not who I learned to become in order to survive. But ...
19. CPTSD, Self-Blame, and the Hypervigilant Parent: What Happens When Trauma Follows You Into Ordinary Moments
"I'm so tired of him slipping into moments that should be mine."This episode explores what it can feel like when a buried memory surfaces without warning, pulling a survivor straight back into a moment the brain had hidden just to make f...
18. Are You Listening? A Survivor's Open Letter to Judges, Lawmakers, and a System That Keeps Failing Us
"Are you listening?"This episode is different. It is not a story. It is not a clinical explanation. It is a direct appeal, spoken on behalf of survivors everywhere, to the judges, lawmakers, attorneys, and every person whose decisions de...
17. Inside a PTSD Trigger: How Music Becomes Trauma and What Exposure Therapy Actually Looks Like
"I'm looking at pictures of you for the first time in years and my heart is racing. My chest is tight. I'm shaking. I've spent less than 10 seconds looking."This episode explores how a specific voice and a specific band became one of the...
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16. Surviving the Holidays While Living in Abuse: The Hidden Dangers, Financial Traps, and How to Protect Your Peace
"Have you ever wished there were no holidays at all? No long weekends? No extra time at home? Because extra time at home means extra time with the person hurting you?"This episode explores the hidden reality of the holidays for abuse sur...
15. Trauma Therapy for Domestic Abuse Survivors: Tara Floersch on CPTSD, the Fawn Response, and How Healing Really Works
"You're never backsliding. You're always higher in elevation than when you started."In this episode, your host welcomes Tara Floersch, a licensed clinical social worker and trauma specialist at Conscious Healing Counseling in Minnesota, ...
14. What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Shweta Nema on Trauma Bonds, Triangulation, and Rebuilding After Abuse
"You do not know what loneliness is until you have encountered a narcissistic relationship in your life."This episode explores why narcissistic abuse is a universal problem that crosses every culture, country, and community, and why the ...
13. When the Court Becomes the Abuser: Christine of Leto Advisors on DARVO, High Conflict Divorce, and Fighting for Your Children
"18 children were murdered in 20 months in one state. 15 of them were already in the system."This episode explores one of the most urgent and least understood realities facing abuse survivors: what happens when family court becomes anoth...
12. What Domestic Violence Shelters Actually Do: Jenny Green of Alexandra House on Safe Housing, Pets, and the Barriers to Leaving
"I didn't even know I was in an abusive relationship until I found a shelter. Nobody was telling me. I couldn't explain it myself."This episode explores what domestic violence shelters actually do, and why emergency housing is a band-aid...
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11. Humor, Heartbreak, and Healing: Maryann Maisano on Her Sister's Abuse, Women's Rights, and Why Silence Is Not an Option
He told her she would never leave that house unless it was in a pine box.In this episode, your host welcomes her very first guest- award-winning performer, comedian, singer, songwriter, and playwright Maryann Maisano. Known for turning l...
10. What Is Coercive Control? How to Recognize It, Document It, and Why the Law Needs to Catch Up
"I have makeup on. I know what's coming."This episode opens with one of the most powerful moments in the podcast, putting on mascara as a quiet act of defiance, and the stare that followed. No words needed. No rule was ever spoken out lo...
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9. What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? How Abuse and Conditioning Steal Your Identity and How to Take It Back
"I found myself parroting beliefs I didn't hold, just to stay safe enough to finish a phone call."This episode explores a question that abuse makes almost impossible to answer: What does it mean to be a woman? And what happens to a woman...
8. PTSD, Family Court, and the Double Bind: Why Leaving Abuse Doesn't Mean Your Children Are Safe
"I laid on the bathroom floor for over two hours. My cats found me first."This episode explores what PTSD can look like years after leaving an abusive relationship, the triggers that strike without warning, the panic attacks, and the gui...
7. Hidden Money, Secret Bank Accounts, and Filing for Protection: How Survivors Can Take Their Power Back
"I drove to the courthouse alone with 12 years of documentation hidden in diapers, camera cases, and folded inside clothes."This episode explores what it can take to finally file for an order of protection, the fear, the shame, the hope,...
6. What Is Dissociation? When Abuse Forces Your Mind to Go Numb Just to Survive
"I would watch myself floating above, just detached from my body. I didn't know it had a name."This episode explores what dissociation actually feels like from the inside: the weightlessness, the numbness, the experience of watching your...
5. You Made My Time Priceless: A Survivor's Letter to Her Children and the Years Lost to Abuse
"My children did not steal my time. They made my time priceless."This episode explores what it can feel like to grieve the years stolen by abuse, the endless days, the suffocating tension, the dreams that had to wait, and what it means t...
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4. Fear, Shame, and Gaslighting: What Abuse Does to Your Mind Long After You Escape
"It's been six years. I have a new life. My kids and I are safe. I really thought the fear would have eased by now."This episode explores what life after abuse can actually look like, the triggers that strike without warning, the hypervi...
