Rachel 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.   Some people were shocked to hear a Colorado mom spent two weekends in jail this month—simply because she was trying to protect her children from contact with an
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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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They know hundreds of stories about family court injustice and gender bias there. Now, Dr. Christine Cocchiola and Amy Polacko are bringing a sampling of these accounts to the world. “In the fall, Amy and I began discussing how we could expose the atrocities of family court,” Cocchiola said. “We realized we have so many
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