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When something feels off in your relationship (But you can’t explain why)

  It rarely starts with a big moment. 🤷🏼‍♀️  No dramatic fight. No obvious dealbreaker. No clear reason you can point to and say, “This is wrong.” 🤔  As a relationship coach and trauma-informed practitioner who has spent over 20 years working with women in unhealthy dynamics and perpetrators of family violence as a Parole Officer (and having lived it myself in many past relationships) I see this quiet questioning stage all the time. This means awareness is starting to…

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MAFS, Coercive control and dickheads

  I don’t watch MAFS generally but one of my friends was very insistent this week that I watch what’s unfolding with dickhead (whoops, I mean Adrian) and Awhina, so I set myself up a 9 now account and got stuck into some clips. 🤔 My friend started out as a client quite a while ago now and back then knew nothing about coercive control and domestic abuse. After quite a few sessions together, I’m proud to say she’s regularly…

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