Lady News - Power & Control

Send us Fan Mail We speak with family lawyer and Divorce Detox founder Cassandra Calpaxis about how coercive control can continue through separation and be amplified by the family court process. We focus on practical steps that protect victim survivors, strengthen evidence, and reduce the chaos that abusers rely on.  • what systems abuse looks like in family court and how it plays out in real time...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lady News , we sit down with Robin Ray , CEO of Beryl Women Inc. in Canberra , to unpack economic abuse as a powerful and often hidden tactic of domestic and family violence. Robin is a proud Kamilaroi woman born in the small NSW country town of Collarenebri , where she grew up on the Aboriginal Reserve. Before becoming CEO, she worked within the service as an A...

Send us Fan Mail We speak with Anne Wintermute from Aimee Says AI about how abuse often reveals itself through patterns   and how this free tool can help survivors recognise coercive control before it's too late.  Together, we unpack the power-and-control wheel and connect it to real-world experiences: rapid emotional escalation, post-separation abuse, and the exhausting administrative burden...

Send us Fan Mail A charming start can hide a calculated pattern. We open our first Lady News episode by naming the tactics that make emotional abuse so hard to see love bombing, DARVO , fast intimacy and we ground them in a brave, lived-experience story from Leesa Scanlan. Her account traces the slow shift from fairy tale to fear, how late-night conflicts and word salad undermine confidence, and w...