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Hang In There
by Hang In There
Hang In There is a powerful podcast dedicated to raising awareness about domestic abuse and the importance of mental health. Through real stories of survival and resilience, we share the journeys of those who have overcome unimaginable challenges and found strength in the face of adversity. Our mission is to spread strength, offer hope, support, and a sense of community for anyone affected by abuse. Each episode highlights the courage it takes to break free, heal, and thrive, while also providing practical advice and resources to help listeners on their own paths to recovery. Join us as we empower voices, challenge silence, and cultivate a space where healing and growth are possible. No one is alone – together, we can spread strength and create lasting change. While we are not mental health experts, the advice and content we share comes from real-life experiences and trusted resources to help guide and support your journey.
Episodes
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32. Following the Thread: Theo’s Breeder Story
Before Theo came home, someone else knew him first. In this episode, Maggie of Akoya Kennels joins Hang In There to talk about what happens in the eight weeks before a puppy ever meets his family. The conversation covers temperament testing, what it can and can’t tell us, how Theo was matched to...
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31. Find The Thread: Why We Chose a Service Dog for PTSD
"I need a thread. Something I can hold onto when I can't find my way back." There's a moment of realizing that surviving was only part of the way out. A moment when the danger has passed, but the alarm hasn't. When years of hard work still can't stop the ground from shifting without warning. When...
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30. The Part of Me Trauma Couldn't Erase
"What if that voice wasn't really mine?" This one is for anyone who has ever questioned themselves after trauma. For the survivors who are still living in it. For those years into healing. And for anyone who has ever wondered why shame can feel louder than compassion. Trauma doesn't just leave...
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29. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Friend- I Didn't Choose To Let You Go
"I didn't choose to lose our friendship. I didn't choose to let you go. I just didn't know I was disappearing." This one is for the friendships that quietly disappeared. For the survivors who lost people they never meant to lose. And for the friends who spent years wondering what happened, and...
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28. Beyond Coercive Control: To Myself: I Still Love Her
"I see clearly now. And I still love her." Two voices share this episode. One is inside the story, young, hopeful, learning what love is supposed to feel like. The other is watching her. Quietly. From a place of hard-won clarity. Not to warn her. Not to intervene. Just to witness her with the...
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27. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Parents- You Loved Me Through It
"You weren't silent because you approved. You were silent because you loved me." Walking into a small entryway. Physically and emotionally exhausted. Carrying bags, holding onto dogs, trying to hold onto the kids. Trying to hold onto myself. And you just… made room for us. In this episode I write…
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26. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Siblings- Finding Our Way Back
"It can disrupt what you have. It can damage it. It doesn't erase what was real." There's a photograph I think about sometimes. All of us at the end of the driveway. Shorts and smiles. Not a care in the world. I didn't know then how much would change. How quietly it would happen. How one day I...
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25. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Partner- What Safe Love Feels Like
"Something in me began again. And this time, I wasn't imagining it. I was living it." For years, she dreamed of a different life while lying on a basement floor. Someone kind. Someone steady. Someone she could trust. Someone who would love her children. She could see it. She could feel it. And…
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24. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Children- You Deserved Better
"You felt 30 years old when you were only 10. And I am so sorry." In this episode, a mother writes a letter to her children. To the ones who grew up inside something they didn't have words for, but felt in their bodies every single day. The hospital room where everything went quiet. The…
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23. Coercive Control: Finding the Words with Dr. Christine Cocchiola
"If it could happen to me, it can happen to anyone." - Dr. Christine Cocchiola In this episode, your host sits down with Dr. Christine Cocchiola, one of the most trusted voices in the field of coercive control, for a conversation about something so many survivors know deeply but struggle to...
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22. To Those Still Surviving: We Haven't Forgotten You
A message to the survivors who are still living inside abuse- You are not forgotten. This episode of Hang In There is dedicated to the survivors who are still living inside abuse. To those who cannot safely leave yet. To those who cannot speak yet. To those who are doing everything they can just…
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21. What PTSD Looks Like From the Inside: One Survivor's Hour-by-Hour Journey Through an Ordinary Day
"From the outside, it can look like someone simply went to work. They showed up. They did their job. They made it through the day." In this episode, you are walked through one ordinary day as a trauma survivor, hour by hour, from the moment your eyes open at 5 am to the moment you pull into the...
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20. I Didn't Lose Myself - I Adapted: Reclaiming Your Identity and Who You Were Before the Abuse
"I'm nearly 50 years old and only recently allowed to work on myself." This episode explores one of the most profound questions a survivor can ask: "Who am I now?" Not who I had to be. Not who I learned to become in order to survive. But who I actually am. It reflects on the person who existed...
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19. CPTSD, Self-Blame, and the Hypervigilant Parent: What Happens When Trauma Follows You Into Ordinary Moments
"I'm so tired of him slipping into moments that should be mine." This episode explores what it can feel like when a buried memory surfaces without warning, pulling a survivor straight back into a moment the brain had hidden just to make functioning possible. It explores what freezing looks like…
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18. Are You Listening? A Survivor's Open Letter to Judges, Lawmakers, and a System That Keeps Failing Us
"Are you listening?" This episode is different. It is not a story. It is not a clinical explanation. It is a direct appeal, spoken on behalf of survivors everywhere, to the judges, lawmakers, attorneys, and every person whose decisions determine the safety and futures of abuse survivors and their...
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17. Inside a PTSD Trigger: How Music Becomes Trauma and What Exposure Therapy Actually Looks Like
"I'm looking at pictures of you for the first time in years and my heart is racing. My chest is tight. I'm shaking. I've spent less than 10 seconds looking." This episode explores how a specific voice and a specific band became one of the most powerful PTSD triggers a survivor can carry, not...
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16. Surviving the Holidays While Living in Abuse: The Hidden Dangers, Financial Traps, and How to Protect Your Peace
"Have you ever wished there were no holidays at all? No long weekends? No extra time at home? Because extra time at home means extra time with the person hurting you?" This episode explores the hidden reality of the holidays for abuse survivors, why domestic violence incidents rise by as much as...
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15. Trauma Therapy for Domestic Abuse Survivors: Tara Floersch on CPTSD, the Fawn Response, and How Healing Really Works
"You're never backsliding. You're always higher in elevation than when you started." In this episode, your host welcomes Tara Floersch, a licensed clinical social worker and trauma specialist at Conscious Healing Counseling in Minnesota, and the therapist who built a unique collaboration that...
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14. What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Shweta Nema on Trauma Bonds, Triangulation, and Rebuilding After Abuse
"You do not know what loneliness is until you have encountered a narcissistic relationship in your life." This episode explores why narcissistic abuse is a universal problem that crosses every culture, country, and community, and why the patterns are always the same regardless of where you live....
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13. When the Court Becomes the Abuser: Christine of Leto Advisors on DARVO, High Conflict Divorce, and Fighting for Your Children
"18 children were murdered in 20 months in one state. 15 of them were already in the system." This episode explores one of the most urgent and least understood realities facing abuse survivors: what happens when family court becomes another tool of control. Christine, owner and coach of Leto...
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12. What Domestic Violence Shelters Actually Do: Jenny Green of Alexandra House on Safe Housing, Pets, and the Barriers to Leaving
"I didn't even know I was in an abusive relationship until I found a shelter. Nobody was telling me. I couldn't explain it myself." This episode explores what domestic violence shelters actually do, and why emergency housing is a band-aid, not a cure. Jenny Green, Housing and Supportive Services...
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11. Humor, Heartbreak, and Healing: Maryann Maisano on Her Sister's Abuse, Women's Rights, and Why Silence Is Not an Option
He told her she would never leave that house unless it was in a pine box. In this episode, your host welcomes her very first guest- award-winning performer, comedian, singer, songwriter, and playwright Maryann Maisano. Known for turning life's heaviest truths into something relatable, honest, and...
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10. What Is Coercive Control? How to Recognize It, Document It, and Why the Law Needs to Catch Up
"I have makeup on. I know what's coming." This episode opens with one of the most powerful moments in the podcast, putting on mascara as a quiet act of defiance, and the stare that followed. No words needed. No rule was ever spoken out loud. And yet the consequences were immediate. It explores...
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9. What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? How Abuse and Conditioning Steal Your Identity and How to Take It Back
"I found myself parroting beliefs I didn't hold, just to stay safe enough to finish a phone call." This episode explores a question that abuse makes almost impossible to answer: What does it mean to be a woman? And what happens to a woman's identity when conditioning has been quietly shaping her...
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8. PTSD, Family Court, and the Double Bind: Why Leaving Abuse Doesn't Mean Your Children Are Safe
"I laid on the bathroom floor for over two hours. My cats found me first." This episode explores what PTSD can look like years after leaving an abusive relationship, the triggers that strike without warning, the panic attacks, and the guilt of watching trauma affect the healthy relationships that...
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7. Hidden Money, Secret Bank Accounts, and Filing for Protection: How Survivors Can Take Their Power Back
"I drove to the courthouse alone with 12 years of documentation hidden in diapers, camera cases, and folded inside clothes." This episode explores what it can take to finally file for an order of protection, the fear, the shame, the hope, and what can happen when the system fails to hold. It…
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6. What Is Dissociation? When Abuse Forces Your Mind to Go Numb Just to Survive
"I would watch myself floating above, just detached from my body. I didn't know it had a name." This episode explores what dissociation actually feels like from the inside: the weightlessness, the numbness, the experience of watching your own life unfold from somewhere outside your body. It...
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5. You Made My Time Priceless: A Survivor's Letter to Her Children and the Years Lost to Abuse
"My children did not steal my time. They made my time priceless." This episode explores what it can feel like to grieve the years stolen by abuse, the endless days, the suffocating tension, the dreams that had to wait, and what it means to finally take that time back. It speaks directly to…
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4. Fear, Shame, and Gaslighting: What Abuse Does to Your Mind Long After You Escape
"It's been six years. I have a new life. My kids and I are safe. I really thought the fear would have eased by now." This episode explores what life after abuse can actually look like, the triggers that strike without warning, the hypervigilance that never fully quiets, and the shame that lingers...
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3. Why Victims Go Back: Love Bombing, Fear, and the Real Reason Leaving Takes Time
"I called lawyers for 15 years. I couldn't risk leaving my kids alone with him half the time." This episode explores why leaving an abusive relationship is rarely as simple as walking out the door, and what keeps survivors trapped for years, sometimes decades. It breaks down love bombing, the...
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2. I Wish He'd Just Hit Me: Recognizing Non-Physical Abuse and the Signs Hiding in Plain Sight
"I wish he'd just hit me, because then I would have had proof." This episode explores what years of non-physical abuse can actually look like, the patterns that repeat endlessly, the impossible expectations after every incident, and the invisible control that left no bruises and no proof. It also...
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1. Why I Started This Podcast: Surviving Over 20 Years of Abuse, Delayed PTSD, and Learning to Hang In There
In this first episode of Hang In There, your host introduces herself for the first time - and it wasn't easy. This episode explores what it can feel like to rebuild a life after abuse- and then discover, years later, that the body has been keeping score the whole time. It walks through what…
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Teaser: Hang In There – A Podcast on Abuse, Healing, and Hope
Hang In There is a powerful podcast shining a light on the often-overlooked realities of emotional and non-physical abuse. Through honest stories and heartfelt conversations, we raise awareness, break the silence, and build a supportive community for survivors. Whether you're on your own healing...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hang In There is a powerful podcast dedicated to raising awareness about domestic abuse and the importance of mental health. Through real stories of survival and resilience, we share the journeys of those who have overcome unimaginable challenges and found strength in the face of adversity.
Our mission is to spread strength, offer hope, support, and a sense of community for anyone affected by abuse. Each episode highlights the courage it takes to break free, heal, and thrive, while also providing practical advice and resources to help listeners on their own paths to recovery.
Join us as we empower voices, challenge silence, and cultivate a space where healing and growth are possible. No one is alone – together, we can spread strength and create lasting change.
While we are not mental health experts, the advice and content we share comes from real-life experiences and trusted resources to help guide and support your journey.
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