Justice Is Now | The Podcast

Send us Fan MailIn conversation with Leonie...Mark Collin is a transformational coach with over 15 years’ experience helping people around the world reconnect with themselves and build meaningful, grounded lives. He brings deep empathy, extensive coaching expertise, and a passion for guiding others through inner healing and personal evolution. Melanie Curtis brings her own lived journey of healing from early trauma to the heart of their work. Her insight into emotional regulation, somatic awareness, and authentic transformation shapes the Coming Home approach, making it both compassionate and powerful. Together, Mark and Melanie guide individuals through somatic and nervous-system-focused transformation toward greater wholeness and self-actualisation. Key points of the episode:The work of Mark and Melanie, and the importance of working with the subconscious mind.The faults of the current system, and better and faster interventions available.The personal experience of Melanie, and the reason that she does the job she does.How years could be taken off healing time.How there is a place for the usual healing route (like counselling and CBT) but there are limits.A new vision for a somatic (body based) approach and the hope of having it in the NHS.The misunderstanding of "Just Get Over It"Mark's story and the work he does now.How we all do the best we can given the circumstances and knowledge we had at the time.How the body adapts, and how that could well have been necessary at the time.(In other words you are doing much better than you think)How we cannot punish ourselves to healing or shame ourselves out of shame!Mark's powerful life philosophy.How all emotions, feelings amd responses are appropriate, and how we need a safe container to express and alchemise it.The importance of trauma informed practise and the concept of "titration"www.cominghomecoaching.com Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailIn this episode Leonie chats to Emma Richardson - a lecturer in language and social interaction.Her mainstay of research is on how reports of gender based- sexual and domestic violence are reported to the police, and how the police recieve them, then how it progresses through the criminal justice system. Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailIn conversation with Selina Mariano, discussing the problems, advances and work that needs to be done in the Italian court system.Justice Is Now is now moving its focus internatonally looking at the statistics, problems, work needed and advances around the world.Some shocking truths presented here, and while there are some advances, much more work is needed. And that is exactly what Justice Is Now is here to advocate for. Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points of this episode:How so many people have likely been affected by the series on Netflix.How we seek "rewrites of a narrative", and why the victim of sexual violence needs to reexperience the situation, but with them being in control........and/or the need for the body and brain to feel safe again.How survival is so accuractly portrayed in the drama, albeit very triggering.How the main actor in the drama became confused sexually, which is understandable in the circumstances.......how the brain procecces sexual violence and the confusing way it plays out for survivors.Showing the real and shattering pain of sexual violence.How we need to focus more on the offending behaviour than the victim (although this is very important) Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailMegan, a Law Student discusses her Court observations. Discussions include:Do we actually understand offending behaviour?  A look at Wayne Couzens red flags in offending behaviourFear that exisits in being falsely accused of rapeDifficulty to gain a convictionWider attiudes to sexual violence  Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey Points of the Episode:Leonie and Madeleines outrage at the recent outrageous levels of sexual violence in the recent conflict.How many layers to the trauma of these people there are.Why people like Leonie and Madeleine will never stop speaking out and advocating.How minimising and diluting still goes on to this day.How "Global Gaslighting" is going on.The indredibly important balance between self care and where your attention goes, and being informed without being overwhelmed. Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points of this episode:Nick's thoughts on AI and how it could affect gender relationshipsHow to stop internalising shame.One possible solution for menHow the  "Not all Men" narrative is not that useful.How it is not "man" per se that we are tackling, but the behaviour.A study (after the war), on the conditions that humans would be cruel to other humans. Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points from the episode:How Nick found a lot of the content on Tik Tok worryingly biased.An unfair disparity on our judgements on male and female sexual behaviour.Nicks theory on "ownership" in relationships.How he thinks it will get worse and why. Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points from the episode:The desire for safe strong convictions, and for the voice of the survivor not to be silenced or lost.Court logistics to protect the survivor from the court experience.More on rape myths.Appropriate and kind ways for the defence to operate.Why kissing somebody in a nightclub is not a permission slip for sexThe difference between banter and harassmentThe need to be comfortable with this uncomfortable conversation.How the authorities – all of them and institutions must understand perpetrator behaviour.Why the onus is always on the survivor and why this needs to change.The need for a complete overhaul .  Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points from the episode: The shocking reason why most female offenders are where they are at.A confusion and desensitisation of sexual violence and what it actually is.The difference between long term groomers and opportunists.The lack of understanding and educationHow the system as it stands sends out mixed messages and can re-traumatise the survivor.Why juries and many others in the system have unconscious bias and lack of knowledge.The disadvantages of the current “adversarial”  model Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan MailKey points from the interview:How the experience of sexual violence leads to crippling shame.How, within certain comminities, there is a further risk or ostracization and shunning from the community (or at least the fear of it)How much more they want to do within the crisis centre.How the topic is just too uncomfortable for some people.How we as a society HAVE to wake up to this epidemic.Why some people minimise what happened as it is "not as bad" as what has happened to some people.How some survivors wait at least 2 years before their case comes to court.How anyone can be a victim of this at any time Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559

Send us Fan Mail Rape myths and facts, unconscious biasThe work they do in schools“The absence of a no does not mean a yes”Why people find it hard to go to the policeInappropriate and hurtful terms used by the authorities at times.The problems WITHIN the authoritiesA common response to sexual trauma (disassociation and the freeze response)An expanded understanding of the 3 F's, now 5 - Fight, Flight, Freeze, Flop, Friend.The need to understand the psychology of the perpetrators.Understanding low level to higher level behaviour Support the showIf you have been affected by anything discussed here, or you need more information, here are a list of helpful resources to reach out to:National Rape Crisis Helpline (open to all, male, female, non-binary...)0808 500 2222Trafford Rape Crisis Centre (TRC)  (Manchester based but open to all)[email protected] Phone: 0161 968 2820Helpline Phone: 0161 647 7559