If you are female, you can’t afford not to read this book.
This could be you—or your daughter, sister, mother, child, or friend. These stories are five-alarm warnings from real women around the world. Just like you perhaps, they had no idea what happens in the gender biased family court underworld—until they were thrust into it during divorce or a custody fight. This book warns about what mothers are up against in these epic battles, the harms inflicted on children, red flags to look out for while dating, ways to protect yourself during marriage, and how to survive. Gift a copy to the women you care about.
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Meet The Authors
Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola
Dr. Cocchiola received her doctorate in clinical social work from New York University, working under the tutelage of Dr. Evan Stark researching the experiences of adult and child victims of coercive control. She has served on the board for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. As a protective parent and researcher, she has utilized her clinical expertise as a trauma-trained therapist creating programs to educate protective parents, attorneys, court professionals, coaches, and advocates. Her Protective Parenting Program guides protective parents on fortifying their attachment with children harmed by an abusive parent. She educates on these topics on her YouTube channel and as a host of the Perfect Prey Podcast. Dr. C is an invited guest, speaking internationally on the topic of coercive control and also testifies in support of legislation for the protections of adult and child victims of coercive control. She makes her home in Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills. Learn more about Dr. C here:
www.coercivecontrolconsulting.com.
Amy Polacko
Amy Polacko is an award-winning journalist, investigative reporter, and divorce coach who survived a narcissist nightmare. After her own experience, she formed Freedom Warrior Coaching to become the guide she wished she had. Amy earned a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning reporting team covering the TWA Flight 800 crash for Newsday. She has coached hundreds of women going through divorce, runs a support group and writes for national news outlets about coercive control, domestic abuse, divorce, online dating, and singlehood. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News, The Independent, and Observer. Amy helps women take their power back before, during, and after divorce. She created a digital course “Divorce Decoded” to educate divorcing women about the process, warnings about family court, how to divorce a narcissist, and tips for avoiding devastating mistakes.
Learn more about Amy here: www.freedomwarrior.info.
NEWS
PUBLISHED 10/3/2024 by Amy Polacko and Christine Cocchiola“Making ourselves small to accommodate someone’s rage does not end well. I had to lose everything to learn that, but that doesn’t have to be your story.”In their groundbreaking new book, Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld, Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko expose the gender biased injustice in family courts. Through
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This article was written by Amy Polacko and Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and originally appeared in Ms. magazine: https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/20/colorado-mom-jail-kids-rachel-pickrel-hawkinsRachel Pickrel-Hawkins, a 48-year-old mother of six living in a domestic violence shelter, said the “therapy” designed to force children to reconcile with abusive father traumatized her children.Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins outside the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in a photo
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WHEN: WED September 28th @ 8 pm EDT. How do you spot an abuser before it’s too late? How do you protect yourself in a marriage? How do abusers use coercive control? And what happens when you divorce a coercive controller/narcissistic abuser in family court?
We’ll cover all this in “The Abuser’s Playbook Workshop.” You receive a
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Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko announced that “FRAMED: Women in the Family Court Underworld” is available for pre-order from various booksellers as of July 29, 2024. (You can find the links to purchase here: www.narcfreepress.com)
The Connecticut authors wrote this exposé about what happens behind closed doors in the family court system to shine
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