As we begin a new year, it's important to recognize that new beginnings include telling your own story.

After survivors learn the tactics of coercion and attend to their injuries, they can focus on how to respond in ways that empower them and disempower the controller. They do this by learning how to keep abusers’ blame, negation, and gaslighting from having power over them.

One of the most significant emotional injuries from intimate partner abuse is loss of self-esteem.

The term “victim” does not identify who anyone is, nor does it reflect on their worth. It denotes what happened to them.