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Supporting women to find their strength, determination & dignity after the traumatic effects of domestic abuse/violence.
Supporting women to find their strength, determination & dignity after the traumatic effects of domestic abuse/violence.
Physical Abuse
Physical Abuse
Physical abuse is any violence or intentional and unwanted contact with your body.
Some examples of physical abuse are:
Scratching, punching, biting, strangling or kicking
Throwing something at you such as a phone, book, shoe or plate
Pulling your hair
Pushing or pulling you
Grabbing your clothing
Grabbing you to prevent you from leaving or to force you to go somewhere
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse refers to any action that pressures you to do something sexually you don’t want to do.
Sexual abuse refers to any action that pressures you to do something sexually you don’t want to do.
Some examples of sexual abuse are:
Unwanted kissing or touching
Unwanted rough or violent sexual activity
Rape or attempted rape
Refusing to use condoms or restricting your access to birth control
Threatening you into unwanted sexual activity
Pressuring or forcing you to have sex or perform sexual acts
Using sexual insults toward you.
Financial abuse
Financial abuse
Can be very subtle — telling you what you can and cannot buy or requiring you to share control of your bank accounts.
Can be very subtle — telling you what you can and cannot buy or requiring you to share control of your bank accounts.
Some examples of financial abuse are:
Giving you an allowance and closely watching what you buy
Placing your wages in their account and denying you access to it
Keeping you from seeing shared bank accounts or records
Forbidding you to work or limiting the hours you do
Preventing you from going to work i.e. by taking your car or keys
Getting you fired by harassing you, your employer or co-workers on the job
Maxing out your credit cards without your permission
Taking out credit cards in your name
Refusing to give you money for food, rent, medicine or clothing
Spending money on themselves but not allowing you to do the same
Digital abuse
Digital abuse
Is the use of technologies such as texting and social networking to bully, harass, stalk or intimidate a partner. Often this behaviour is a form of verbal or emotional abuse perpetrated online.
Is the use of technologies such as texting and social networking to bully, harass, stalk or intimidate a partner. Often this behaviour is a form of verbal or emotional abuse perpetrated online.
Some examples of digital abuse are when someone:
Tells you who you can or can’t be friends with on Facebook and other sites
Sends you negative, insulting or threatening emails, Facebook messages, tweets, direct messages or other messages online
Uses sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others to keep constant tabs on you
Posts negative things about you
Sends you unwanted, explicit pictures and/or demands you send some in return
Pressures you to send explicit video or sexts
Steals or insists to be given your passwords
Constantly texts you and makes you feel like you can’t be separated from your phone for fear that you will be punished
Looks through your phone frequently, checks up on your pictures, texts and outgoing calls.
Tags you unkindly in pictures on Instagram, Tumblr, etc.
Cohersive control
Cohersive control
A pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or sexual violence.
A pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or sexual violence.
Some examples of coercive control are:
Unreasonable demands
Degradation
Restricting daily activities
Threats or intimidation
Financial control
Monitoring of time
Taking your phone away
Deprivation of food
Destruction of possessions
Guilt tripping
Silent treatment
Psychological & Emotional Abuse
Psychological & Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse includes threats, insults, humiliation, intimidation, isolation or stalking.
Emotional abuse includes threats, insults, humiliation, intimidation, isolation or stalking.
Some examples of emotional abuse are:
Calling you names and putting you down
Yelling and screaming at you
Intentionally embarrassing you in public
Preventing you from seeing or talking with friends and family
Telling you what to do and wear
Damaging your property when they’re angry (throwing objects, punching walls, kicking doors, etc.)
Blaming you for their actions or unhealthy behaviour
Threatening to commit suicide to keep you from breaking up with them
Threatening to harm you, your pet or people you care about
Making you feel guilty or immature when you don’t consent to sexual activity
Threatening to have your children taken away
A person subjecting another person to behaviour which may result in psychological trauma including anxiety, chronic depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
A person subjecting another person to behaviour which may result in psychological trauma including anxiety, chronic depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Some examples of psychological abuse are:
Gaslighting – manipulating you into doubting your own sanity or reality
Moving things around the house, or removing them and returning them later, then denying it
Denying that you or they said things
Telling you that people have said things about you, or that your friends don’t like you
Telling you that you have a mental health condition when you haven’t
Making derogatory jokes about you to others in front of you
Name calling, telling you you are useless, stupid, worthless and mad
Questions you endlessly about everything you do or say.
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