Breaking the Cycle: Redefining Recovery for IPV Survivors

⚠️ Content note: this episode contains descriptions of domestic violence and physical altercation.⚠️ In this episode, Alana Moore, a UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare graduate and survivor of fifteen years of intimate partner violence, shares the night of December 23rd, 2014, in full detail for the first time. She walks through the parking lot, a confrontation that ended her marriage and change...

He told me I was dumb, worthless, and that I would end up living off the government. This episode is what I said on the day I graduated from the number one public university in the world. I was shaking. But I spoke anyway. This is the commencement speech I gave to the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Class of 2026 , for every woman who has ever been told she would never amount to anything. Loo...

Emergency shelters save lives. But saving someone from immediate danger is not the same as helping them build one. In this debut episode, I share why I created this podcast, what fifteen years of abuse taught me about the failures of crisis-only intervention, and what Judith Herman's three-stage trauma recovery framework tells us survivors actually need. You will also hear from Diane Fleet of Gree...