Tagged #emotionalabuse

Emotional Abuse

Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and here’s an excerpt from an article I read on emotional abuse. “Emotional abuse can escalate to violence, but doesn’t always. Abusers instead control their partners with words. The abuse, sometimes called coercive control, can be difficult to spot, both inside…

Big Little Lies…What Did You Think?

‘Big Little Lies’: Alexander Skarsgard Talks “Emotionally Draining” Domestic Violence Scenes Courtesy of HBO The actor talks to THR about working with Nicole Kidman and that “brilliant” finale death. [Warning: This story contains spoilers from the Big Little Lies finale.] All was revealed in the Big Little Lies finale. The HBO…

A Common Thread – A Blog Post by Priscilla Bennett

As more and more battered women came into the emergency room by ambulance, car or on foot, I saw the magnitude of a problem no one wanted to address. I witnessed and treated abused women from all backgrounds and saw the devastating effects of mental and physical violence it had…