Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of emotional abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Please choose how you listen in a way that protects yourself.

Think someone you love might be in an abusive relationship? Tiffiny Newton breaks down red flags, coercive control, trauma bonding, and what actually helps when someone is ready to leave.

Show Notes

Tiffiny Newton’s Website: https://tiffinynewton.com/

Self Defense Resources

• Diamond Defense: https://diamonddefense.com/resources
• Domestic Violence Hotline (in the United States): 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233) thehotline.org
• Relationships Australia Victoria RAV — What is Coercive Control? Article: https://www.relationshipsvictoria.org.au/news/what-is-coercive-control/

Sexual Assault Resources

• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-4673 https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/

Other Resources

• Power and Control Wheels: https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/ Copyright by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
• Sacramento Family Justice Center: https://www.sacramentofjc.org/

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Production Team

Co-Host and Co-Producer: Lisa

Co-Host and Co-Producer: Kellie

Special Thanks

Ann Cobb, Tiffiny Newton, Kelley Ogden, Karin

Music

• Music courtesy of Melodie Music.
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Title: Fighter; Artist: Christy Panchal Composers: Klotz Christina Elyse Panchal (ASCAP: 1020882000) 50%, Carrozza Gregory Joseph (BMI: 00528390441) 50%

https://melod.ie/track-details/3300-fighter

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Eight episodes in, we pause to listen back—to the moments when instinct spoke, boundaries mattered, and survival took shape in real time. This mid-season recap revisits discussions of sexual assault, coercive control, and personal safety; nothing is graphic, but some content may be activating.

Self Defense Resources

• Diamond Defense
  • https://diamonddefense.com/resources
• Domestic Violence Hotline (in the United States)
  • 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233)
  • https://www.thehotline.org/
• Relationships Australia Victoria RAV — What is Coercive Control? Article
  • https://www.relationshipsvictoria.org.au/news/what-is-coercive-control/

Sexual Assault Resources

• National Sexual Assault Hotline – 800-656-4673
  • https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/

💎Learn more at https://diamonddefense.com/

💎Have a story you want to share on the podcast? Email us at DiamondDefensePodcast@gmail.com

💎If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and review it — help everyone shine stronger!

💎Diamond Defense YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@diamonddefense321

Show Notes

Co-Host and Co-Producer: Lisa
Co-Host and Co-Producer: Kellie

Special Thanks

Ann Cobb, Kelley Ogden, Aniko, Jessica, Martha, Karin

Music

• Music courtesy of Melodie Music.
  • Melodie Music Subscription: Pro Plan, Lifetime

Title: Fighter; Artist: Christy Panchal Composers: Klotz Christina Elyse Panchal (ASCAP: 1020882000) 50%, Carrozza Gregory Joseph (BMI: 00528390441) 50%

https://melod.ie/track-details/3300-fighter

Title: Introspection; Artist: Travis A. King Composers: King Travis Adam (APRA: 00400117039) 100%

https://melod.ie/track-details/2459-introspection

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Content Warning: This episode includes personal accounts of coercive control, emotional abuse, intimidation, and fear within a relationship.

Understand coercive control relationships and the quiet patterns of emotional abuse hiding in plain sight. This episode explores some of the hidden patterns of emotional and psychological abuse, why they’re so hard to recognize, and how awareness can become a path back to safety.

Self-defense instructor Lisa sits down with Karin, a survivor of a long-term coercive control relationship, for a deeply honest, illuminating conversation. Together, they unpack how control took root, how it escalated over time, and how Karin ultimately found her way out.

This is not a sensational story. It’s a listening story — one meant to give language to experiences many people feel but struggle to name.

Whether you’re questioning a relationship, supporting someone you love, or seeking to understand the quieter forms of abuse that often go unseen, this episode offers insight, validation, and a reminder: control is not love — and safety is possible.

Self Defense Resources

• Diamond Defense
  https://diamonddefense.com/resources
• Domestic Violence Hotline (in the United States)
  1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233)
  thehotline.org
• Relationships Australia Victoria RAV — What is Coercive Control? (Article)
  https://www.relationshipsvictoria.org.au/news/what-is-coercive-control/

💎Learn more at https://diamonddefense.com/

💎Have a story you want to share on the podcast? Email us at DiamondDefensePodcast@gmail.com

💎If you enjoyed the episode, please rate and review it — help everyone shine stronger!

Show Notes
Co-Host and Co-Producer: Lisa
Co-Host and Co-Producer: Kellie

Special Thanks
Ann Cobb, Kelley Ogden, Karin

Music

Music courtesy of Melodie Music.
Melodie Music Subscription: Pro Plan, Lifetime

Title: Fighter; Artist: Christy Panchal Composers: Klotz Christina Elyse Panchal (ASCAP: 1020882000) 50%, Carrozza Gregory Joseph (BMI: 00528390441) 50%
https://melod.ie/track-details/3300-fighter

Title: A Change in the Weather Artist: Cookie Cartel Composers: Ancheta Mary Beth (SOCAN: 263187068) 50%, Kearley Dan William (SOCAN: 441100030) 50%
https://melod.ie/track-details/2443-a-change-in-the-weather

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