Hang In There

Hang In There
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Hang In There is a powerful podcast dedicated to raising awareness about domestic abuse and the importance of mental health. Through real stories of survival and resilience, we share the journeys of those who have overcome unimaginable challenges and found strength in the face of adversity.Our mission is to spread strength, offer hope, support, and a sense of community for anyone affected by abuse. Each episode highlights the courage it takes to break free, heal, and thrive, while also providing practical advice and resources to help listeners on their own paths to recovery.Join us as we empower voices, challenge silence, and cultivate a space where healing and growth are possible. No one is alone – together, we can spread strength and create lasting change.While we are not mental health experts, the advice and content we share comes from real-life experiences and trusted resources to help guide and support your journey.   

  1. MAY 12

    27. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Parents- You Loved Me Through It

    "You weren't silent because you approved. You were silent because you loved me." Walking into a small entryway. Physically and emotionally exhausted. Carrying bags, holding onto dogs, trying to hold onto the kids. Trying to hold onto myself. And you just… made room for us. In this episode I write a letter to my parents. To the people who loved me through something they couldn't fully see. Who stayed available even when they didn't know what to say. Who watched me go back again and again and kept the door open anyway. Tuesday phone calls on a landline. Lawyers who couldn't help. Missed holidays that slowly became normal. A magic wand no one could wave. And a voice in the background saying three words that changed everything. This episode is for every survivor who never found the words to tell their family what those years cost them. For every parent who watched their child disappear and didn't know whether speaking up would help or make things worse. For the child waiting to hear the door is still open. For the parent waiting for them to walk back through it. And for every survivor whose family wasn't there at all, this episode holds space for you too. Coercive control doesn't just affect the person living inside it. It spreads outward quietly. Into families. Into silence. Into the way everyone around it learns to survive too. Love doesn't always look the way we expect it to. Sometimes it looks like a door that stayed open. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    30 min

  2. MAY 1

    26. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Siblings- Finding Our Way Back

    "It can disrupt what you have. It can damage it. It doesn't erase what was real." There's a photograph I think about sometimes. All of us at the end of the driveway. Shorts and smiles. Not a care in the world. I didn't know then how much would change. How quietly it would happen. How one day I would look back at that photograph and try to remember what easy felt like. In this episode I write a letter to my siblings. To the ones who were always supposed to be there, and to the relationships that changed slowly, quietly, before any of us realized what was happening. Wrestling matches on living room couch cushions. Hockey in boots. A dirt-bike driven straight into a fence. Bunk beds and late night conversations. The first person I called when something big happened. And then, the drift. The isolation that looked like pulling away but wasn't. An envelope full of documentation. Going back anyway. And an email typed with shaking hands, words that weren't mine, that broke something that had always felt easy. For years there was silence. And then, pizza with no plates and no cups. And the slow imperfect work of finding our way back. This episode is for every survivor who lost family connections during the hardest years. For every family member who watched someone they loved disappear and didn't understand why. And for anyone carrying grief over relationships that coercive control quietly damaged. The distance wasn't what it seemed. And some things, even after everything, don't erase.  Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    29 min
  3. 25. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Partner- What Safe Love Feels Like

    APR 23

    25. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Partner- What Safe Love Feels Like

    "Something in me began again. And this time, I wasn't imagining it. I was living it." For years, she dreamed of a different life while lying on a basement floor. Someone kind. Someone steady. Someone she could trust. Someone who would love her children. She could see it. She could feel it. And then reality pulled her back- up the stairs, mask on, keep going. She had no idea that life was already on its way. This episode is a love story. A letter written to the person who found her again after everything, and chose to stay. A waving emoji sent with shaking hands after 25 years of silence. Hard chairs and three hours that disappeared. Learning that stopping along the way was allowed. Feeling like an adult again for the first time in a long time. And what happens when someone shows up with safe, steady love, and stays. Even when it's hard. Even when it's heavy. Even when the past comes back all at once. For survivors still learning what safe love feels like after trauma, this one is for you. For the partners choosing to stay and love someone through it, this one is for you too. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    29 min
  4. 24. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Children- You Deserved Better

    APR 16

    24. Beyond Coercive Control: To My Children- You Deserved Better

    "You felt 30 years old when you were only 10. And I am so sorry." In this episode, a mother writes a letter to her children. To the ones who grew up inside something they didn't have words for, but felt in their bodies every single day. The hospital room where everything went quiet. The birthdays, the snickerdoodles, the car rides that felt safer than being home. The holidays that felt heavy. The stairs where little ears heard things they never should have. The two realities happening inside the same house at the same time. They never asked why she left. Because they already knew. This episode is for every parent carrying the weight of what their children lived through. For every adult child still making sense of a childhood that asked too much of them. And for anyone who has ever looked at a family and thought, they seem fine. They weren't always fine. Children inside coercive control witness it, absorb it, and many experience it directly. It is never too late to say- I see it now. I'm sorry. You didn't deserve any of it. And thank you. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    29 min
  5. 23. Coercive Control: Finding the Words with Dr. Christine Cocchiola

    APR 2

    23. Coercive Control: Finding the Words with Dr. Christine Cocchiola

    "If it could happen to me, it can happen to anyone." - Dr. Christine Cocchiola In this episode, your host sits down with Dr. Christine Cocchiola, one of the most trusted voices in the field of coercive control, for a conversation about something so many survivors know deeply but struggle to explain. The words were never lost. They were taken. The house where the rules keep changing. The child who learns to listen for footsteps. The adult partner who feels careful, confused, and smaller, without ever being able to say exactly why. Dr. Cocchiola walks us through what coercive control actually feels like from the inside. The grooming that feels like love. The isolation that feels like care. The moment you realize the cage has been getting smaller for years. And why survivors so often can't explain what happened to them, not because nothing happened, but because the confusion was intentional. This conversation also goes deeper, into how children feel coercive control in their bodies before they ever have words for it. Into why abusers choose the people they choose. And into what becomes possible when language finally returns. Because naming what happened is often where healing begins. Learn more about Dr. Cocchiola at www.coercivecontrolconsulting.com, listen to her podcast Perfect Prey, and watch her TEDx Talk "It's All Coercive Control" here. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    44 min
  6. 22. To Those Still Surviving: We Haven't Forgotten You

    MAR 16

    22. To Those Still Surviving: We Haven't Forgotten You

    A message to the survivors who are still living inside abuse- You are not forgotten. This episode of Hang In There is dedicated to the survivors who are still living inside abuse. To those who cannot safely leave yet. To those who cannot speak yet. To those who are doing everything they can just to make it through another day. If you are listening quietly, please know this: you are not alone, and you are not forgotten. Survivors around the world are speaking, building communities, and working to create systems that finally protect families and children.  This episode is a message of recognition, solidarity, and hope. If you are able, please help share this episode so it can reach the survivors who may need to hear it most. We speak. We rise. We protect the next one. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    11 min
  7. 21. What PTSD Looks Like From the Inside: One Survivor's Hour-by-Hour Journey Through an Ordinary Day

    MAR 10

    21. What PTSD Looks Like From the Inside: One Survivor's Hour-by-Hour Journey Through an Ordinary Day

    "From the outside, it can look like someone simply went to work. They showed up. They did their job. They made it through the day." In this episode, you are walked through one ordinary day as a trauma survivor, hour by hour, from the moment your eyes open at 5 am to the moment you pull into the driveway. The scanning before getting out of bed. The checking inside the car before getting in. The three shots of espresso just to function. The mascara that still triggers a memory every single morning. The trucks on the highway that flood your body before your mind can catch up. The unpredictable work assignment that throws your nervous system completely. The background music you screen all day while trying to do your job. The moment you run out of the room, covering your ears. The coworker who leaves his own break to help you take yours. And the quiet, devastating realization mid-shift, "you are trapped. Just like you were in the trucks. Just like you were in the house." This episode is for every survivor who has ever shown up to their life while fighting a battle nobody else could see. And for everyone who loves a survivor and wants to understand what that battle actually looks like. Trauma doesn't just live in memory. It lives in the nervous system. And sometimes the strongest thing a person can do is simply get through the day. Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    31 min
  8. 20. I Didn't Lose Myself - I Adapted: Reclaiming Your Identity and Who You Were Before the Abuse

    FEB 21

    20. I Didn't Lose Myself - I Adapted: Reclaiming Your Identity and Who You Were Before the Abuse

    "I'm nearly 50 years old and only recently allowed to work on myself." This episode explores one of the most profound questions a survivor can ask: "Who am I now?" Not who I had to be. Not who I learned to become in order to survive. But who I actually am. It reflects on the person who existed before, carefree, fearless, fully alive, and traces how that person didn't disappear. She adapted. She learned to stay small, question herself, and ignore her own needs. And now she is gently unlearning all of it. It also explores what healing looks like in real, unglamorous terms, music triggers leaving a person exhausted, a birthday party sending someone to the bathroom in tears, calling a loved one just to hear their voice. And it speaks to the survivors still wondering whether they lost themselves, with a quietly powerful effect. You didn't lose yourself either. The person you were before, the one who was curious and carefree and fully alive, is still there. Buried maybe. But still there. "I didn't lose myself. I adapted. But that adaptation came with a cost. And now I'm learning how to live as the person I've always been, the part of me that never left." Send us Fan Mail The personal experiences shared in this podcast are the opinions of the individuals sharing them and are not intended to serve as professional advice or constitute accusations about any other person, organization, or group. We encourage you to seek professional support and assistance.  The topics discussed in this podcast may be distressing and triggering for some listeners and could impact your mental health.  The content of this podcast is intended for educational and awareness purposes only. For more information and resources, please visit hanginthere.net.

    26 min
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Hang In There is a powerful podcast dedicated to raising awareness about domestic abuse and the importance of mental health. Through real stories of survival and resilience, we share the journeys of those who have overcome unimaginable challenges and found strength in the face of adversity.Our mission is to spread strength, offer hope, support, and a sense of community for anyone affected by abuse. Each episode highlights the courage it takes to break free, heal, and thrive, while also providing practical advice and resources to help listeners on their own paths to recovery.Join us as we empower voices, challenge silence, and cultivate a space where healing and growth are possible. No one is alone – together, we can spread strength and create lasting change.While we are not mental health experts, the advice and content we share comes from real-life experiences and trusted resources to help guide and support your journey.   

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  • Creator
    Hang In There
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Hang In There, LLC
  • Show Website
    Hang In There

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