Perfect Prey: A Coercive Control Podcast

The Coercive Controller exerts power over everyone - including our children. His primary focus is to ensure our children feel shame and he kindles that overtly and covertly with them. We need to do whatever we can to extinguish this - shame-reducing responses are so important, yet so challenging when our children trigger our trauma. --- Follow Dr. Christine on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@dr.cocch...

What if you could look down on the relationship dynamics with the coercive controller [Narcissistic Abuser]? What has the coercive controller been saying about you you since DAY ONE? We need THE LIST so that we can counteract the abusers intentional diminishing of the protective parent and we need to begin to change THE STORY our children believe to be true. --- Follow Dr. Christine on social medi...

The threats of revenge are all too real: The financial ruin that is often further inflicted through the legal process is overwhelming. It's all intentional. It's all planned. --- Follow Dr. Christine on social media: Instagram: ⁠@dr.cocchiola_coercivecontrol⁠ Facebook: ⁠@dr.cocchiola.coercivecontrol⁠ Twitter: ⁠@coercivecontrol⁠ YouTube: ⁠@DrCocchiola⁠ Website: ⁠https://coercivecontrolconsu...

In this episode Dr. Cocchiola begins to unpack the various ways that coercive controllers inflict their harm. It's ALL intentional. It's a course of conduct. A pattern that is often insidious yet cumulative. It's intimate terrorism. It limits the freedoms of an individual - as Dr. Evan Stark states: "Coercive Control is a liberty crime and we MUST be in the business of EMANCIPATIO...

Their egos so compromised and their goal to compromise the adult victims' ego and their children’s ego - all to maintain control. Our children particularly vulnerable. Who are these individuals? What is it that they are doing? How do they become individuals so readily willing to intentionally harm? Why do they abuse? --- Follow Dr. Christine on social media: Instagram:  @dr.cocchiola_coercivec...

Dr. Cocchiola defines coercive control, highlighting its impact on children beyond physical abuse. She emphasizes its role in domestic and child abuse, often concealed from authorities. Addressing children's vulnerability as "Perfect Prey," she stresses the vital support protective parents offer to those exposed to coercive control. Follow Dr. Christine on social media: Instagram: @d...

This episode begins to outline the steps of derailing the coercive controller's plan and gives us the perspective of this abusive parent. For our children, Compliance is an Act of Survival. DISCLAIMER: The podcast must not replace medical or mental health guidance. It's recommended that individuals consult a healthcare professional for independent medical advice, counseling, or therapy reg...

Kantianism comes from the philosopher Immanuel Kant:  "the idea that we have a moral duty to act in a good way - whether it benefits us or not. People are ends unto themselves and not pawns in someone else’s games" - unless of course, we are dealing with a coercive controller [narcissistic abuser]. Then everyone is fair game - especially our children.  In this in-depth episode, Dr. Cocch...