When Coercive Control In Your Relationship, Stops You From Living Your Best Life
'Living Your Best Life in Afrika' Podcast.
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Thank you so much for your interaction with last week’s podcast. It is not easy to talk about violence in our personal relationships, but what’s great about talking about these kinds of difficult subjects - is that the more we talk, the harder it is for things to stay hidden. The more we expose what is happening, the more we challenge the people and circumstances that allow violence in our relationships to take place and the more we challenge, the more we build ourselves up to take decisive action and break free.
In this week’s episode we come to the final episode of what I wanted to cover, in terms of ‘someone’ holding you back from living your best life. In part 1 of this series I looked at loneliness holding you back from living your best life. In part 2 I looked at physical abuse and an abusive partner as the someone holding you back. In this final episode in this series, I’m talking about coercive control as the way your partner may act or use a pattern of acts made up of assault, threats, humiliation, intimidation or other abuses that are used to harm, punish, or frighten you - the aim being to use punishment or fear to control your behaviour. The control of your behaviour is designed to make you dependent on your partner by isolating you from support or by exploiting you or by depriving you of independence, with the overall aim of regulating your everyday behaviour.
Coercive control is about creating invisible chains around you to instil a sense of fear that seeps into all elements of your life. Your partner can also have the intention of using coercive forms of abuse as a way of limiting your life by depriving you of your liberty and reducing your ability to take actions of your choice.
I hope you find something useful in the episode and if you recognise yourself or someone you know – that you feel able to take the first steps towards freeing yourself so you can take the first steps towards living your best life today.
If you need help and support, you can use the contact details below, to reach out and get support.
Stay blessed and stay safe.
Dr Asher
LINKS TO UK SUPPORT SERVICES
WOMEN
London Black Women's Project https://www.sistersforchange.org.uk/contact-us/
Sistah Space https://www.sistahspace.org/contact-us
Southall Black Sisters Helpline Mon / Wed / Fri: 0208 571 9595 https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/contact-us/
Muslim Women's Network holds a list of services for Muslim / Asian women
http://www.mwnhelpline.co.uk/issuesstep2.php?id=14
Women's Aid https://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic-abuse-directory/
MEN
Men's Advice Line 0808 801 0327 / [email protected]
Mankind Initiative 01823 334 244
LINK TO BACK EPISODES OF THE PODCAST HERE