Ep 250: Time to Change the Conversation Around Domestic Abuse with Natalie Collins

How would you feel if your partner came home with flowers or tickets to the theatre?

Emma and Natalie are on holiday this week so Harriet is joined by Jenni Trent Hughes and Carrie Grant.

Natalie Collins shares her heartbreaking story of being broken by domestic violence and her incredible journey of recovery.

She explains how something as simple as flowers or tickets to the theatre, for some women are small signs of manipulation and abuse.

On average women are abused 35 times before they actually report it, and do so 5 times before they receive the help they need, Natalie explains why services are stretched so thin and what can be done to change the conversation around domestic abuse.

She now works with victims and abusers making changes and challenging views which we revive from society in the media, porn and politics about how women behave and how they should be treated, as well as talking about the real reason we have a victim culture.

Harriet, Jenni and Carrie discuss with Natalie how to define domestic abuse in today's “digital culture” and how we can raise children to ask questions, challenge societal norms, respect themselves and their relationships.

Her book Out of Control: Couples conflict and the capacity to change, reflects upon her own experience combined with what she has learnt through working with victims and perpetrators and is out now.

If you would like help and advice around domestic violence please click here.

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Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

 

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