In this episode of the Pride in Respect Podcast, host Dr Jack Farrugia is joined by Julia and Tori Cooke for a powerful conversation about post-separation abuse and the ways coercive control can continue after a relationship has ended.

Julia, a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, shares her lived experience of long-term coercive control, family violence and the ongoing impacts of abuse after separation. Her story highlights how leaving does not always mean immediate safety, and how people using violence may continue to intimidate, monitor, threaten, isolate or manipulate victim-survivors long after the relationship is over.

Tori Cooke, a family violence consultant, clinical supervisor, trainer and educator, brings deep sector insight into how coercive control works, why it can be so difficult to recognise, and why community responses ma ...