You Know My Wrath
Season 1
Therapy and Secondary Abuse
The Dread of Holidays
The First Time I Tried To Break Free
She's Just PMSing
by Cece Moon
As a therapist going to therapy, what helped and what was lost in looking for outside help to leave.
The control over everyone's emotions during holidays can be draining for victims, and empowering for an abuser.
In this reading we hear of her first attempt to break free, and the violence that follows. Also, we hear first hand a few of the harassing voicemails left on the family's answering machine.
Details of the first incident of physical abuse, and examining the trauma bonding that occurs in an abusive relationship.
In 2008, my mother died, and in searching for her will, I found these handwritten notebooks filled with stories about my her life with my abusive father. She used her writing both as a healing exercise, and to inspire her dissertation on domestic abuse for her PhD in psychotherapy. This is a story told in my mother's words...
The final effects of leaving her abusive situation, waging a war with her partner. Final reading.