Love is a Battlefield - The Domestic Violence Podcast

One of the FINAL episodes of this Podcast is this HUGE trauma dump. ...... OK WTAF? I haven't talked about this much and even in this episode I struggle to talk about it. This podcast is all fine and dandy when talking about what happened to me but a whole different story when talking about kids. Ive shared this though to show an important message. That its not about us and our feelings like our p...

This episode discusses the book and film It Ends With Us along with the drama in the media surrounding its two stars Justin Baldwin and Blake Lively. Ive recently had covid so I have to pause at one point but it is all good. Take care xx EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com *Please d...

Wow the big 5-0. In this episode I look back at every episode and reflect on the journey with this podcast until now. xx EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com *Please discontinue advertising emails asking for $ to edit the podcast - I make $0 so you are welcome to a percentage of $0.*...

This is a pretty chill, many target, loose chat episode before we get back into the serious episodes next time. It goes for aaaaaages but you can chip away at it over the coming weeks while you walk the dog, drive to and from work or clean your home-multitasking like a boss. EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares...

Putting down an ACTUAL victim of crime as having a "Victim Mentality" is BSSSS. How so? Spend an hour with me and we will discuss this and other things. Slay xx EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com *Please discontinue advertising emails asking for $ to edit the podcast - I...

What's the link between being ADHD and/or ASD and being more likely to be in an abusive relationship? THERE IS A LINK. Lets review! EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com *Please discontinue advertising emails asking for $ to edit the podcast - I make $0 so you are welcome to a per...

I was REALLY tired after work when I recorded this bad boy. That's all I'll say lol EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com *Please discontinue advertising emails asking for $ to edit the podcast - I make $0 so you are welcome to a percentage of $0.* ABOUT:  Love is a Battlefiel...

If you've been on social media lately you'd have heard about women (and many men) saying they'd choose to be alone in the forest with a bear instead of a man, highlighting the natural fear we have always held shame over and hidden. This episode I talk about that and also touch on last weeks episode. EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:   Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relat...

*Trigger warning- Discussions of suicide* Please google for helplines in your country if anything is triggering in this episode. xx After seeing on Tik Tok and Reddit the information that has come to light about the tragic passing of Mica Miller in the US, I have changed today's topic to this. It was important to share what happened to both myself and the victim prior to me in order to show ho...

This past weekend, THOUSANDS rallied and marched all over Australia (minus Darwin - Sorry!) to say No More to male violence against women as more women were murdered by their partners this week. Over the weekend we lost another 1 or 2 women murdered by their male partners while we marched. In this episode I talk about attending one of the rallies and how that felt. I discuss the politicians who we...

The Australian attack against women occurred recently in Bondi, Sydney, NSW, Australia. A white man got a knife (thank you gun laws) then ran around, stabbing women and babies in a large shopping centre (mall). He avoided men and only ended the life of one as he was a security guard trying to apprehend him alone. Everyone else fled while he stabbed a baby then stabbed the babies mother, the mother...

For anyone overseas I explain this case in the podcast so you will understand. Women of Australia have felt seen and heard this week as the Judge announced he found Bruce Lehmann DID rape Britney Higgins and his attempt at defamation, ie/ "throwing a Johnny Depp" like a classic narcissist, was dismissed. Specifics aside, this shows how many rapists are free in this country due to "t...

*DOUBLE EPISODE - NO EP NEXT WEEK* I'll give you two weeks to get through this big one!!  CONTROVERSIAL AF- When we touch on JUJU, spiritual, supernatural, God and what not things can get awkward. I try to touch on this lightly and very OPEN minded while sharing some stories. One was about an ex I had years ago and that shift many narcissism survivors have described seeing in their perpetrator...

It's a term some of us may have heard of, or others may have experienced, The Narcissist Discard. Personally, I'd thought it had not happened to me, but during the episode I recall situations where it had. Narcissists are very sick individuals, whose goal is power and control over others. As usual if this episode were a restaurant meal, you'd send it back to the chef for lack of qualit...

So I wanted to acknowledge this very significant topic without deep diving and end up crying. So I've touched on it lightly and shared some other things without going right into the pain of a mother reflecting on the pain their children suffered at the hands of abusive men. A nicer shorter episode today. Back to a long one next week haha. EMAIL in YOUR stories PLEASEEEE   ⁠⁠liabfpodcast@gmail....

In this episode, I spill the story time of how I met the perpetrator, with an extra little embarrassing story in the middle! As usual I give ALL the details, the good, the bad AND the ugly. Stay safe legends xx EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:  Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com Business enquiries please also use ab...

Hey Legends, I PROMISE this episode is not as long as others have been! At a neat little 30 mins I discuss weaponised incompetence in both relationships and the workplace. Weaponised Incompetence can be part of a DV relationship or it can be stemming from patriarchal misogyny. I've been guilty of putting up with it in previous relationships while working and doing all the things. Email in shar...

Australian TEMU 137044260 hahaha EP 35: The title doesn't lie. This episode goes for AAAGES but I knew it would, hence taking a year to do it. PTSD or C-PTSD is so complex and different for everyone. In this episode, we look at the basics of what it is and what it looks like. The tangent trains have some juicy tea. Especially one right near the end where I disclose a never before told story fr...

Last Weeks Episode ...PART 2! EMOTIONAL ABUSE which is such a mammoth part of Domestic Violence. For anyone unsure why Emotional Abuse is labelled a form of "violence", these are the episodes for you. In listing all the signs and symptoms of Emotional Abuse and (over) sharing my personal experiences of each, I hope for survivors/victims....... That you know you're NOT alone. That abu...

In Ep 33, we dive DEEEEP into EMOTIONAL ABUSE which is such a mammoth part of Domestic Violence. For anyone unsure why Emotional Abuse is labelled a form of "violence", this is the episode for you. In listing all the signs and symptoms of Emotional Abuse and (over) sharing my personal experiences of each, I hope for survivors/victims....... That you know you're NOT alone That abusers have very sim...

**TRIGGER WARNING** Episode 32 is the episode that has been avoided until now due to the triggering content and revisiting some pretty heavy events during an abusive relationship. I start the episode by saying 'I hope to just lightly touch on some points and share a couple of things quickly, but it will likely get heavy' and yes as usual, it does. As someone partial to an overshare, I stil...

**EP 31 had the audio from Ep 30. This has now been amended. Thanks for your patience with this technical issue.** From me, a survivor of DV, I am going to let you know the ins and outs of WHY we keep the abuse a secret. Why on earth do we protect our abuser and not tell anyone? There's several reasons so tune in for the tea on that. The episode concludes after a rant about what was on the Aus...

More DV terminology at your service! Today we explore 'Hoovering', a common DV term. I also share a whole bunch of story times, spilling tea all over the place today. Ive been through Hoovering and got sucked back into that bag like a piece of dust, and other times I have been able to resist the highest setting on the vacuum. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, tune in, have a...

What is Information Gathering and WHY do narcissists do it? I answer this in this 40 min episode while also, as usual sharing many personal stories about my abuser and what they did! References: medium.com pairedlife.com EPISODE DISCLAIMER CONTACT:  Email in to share your story or for advice with ANY relationship dilemma or dating nightmares at:   liabfpodcast@gmail.com Business enquiries please a...

Longest episode to date! The 3 exclamation marks in the title are in honour of the many '!!!' in the emails read out in this episode. These have not been read until now! In this EXTRA EXTRA (caps lock for an effect much like in the dramatic emails) long episode, I read these emails and interpret the abusers intentions/meaning behind them for you. I would've LOVED to hear something like this in tho...