Season 5 Episode 5: A Trauma History is Not An Excuse for Acting Abusively

Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel - A podcast by Ruth Reymundo Mandel & David Mandel

Send us a text In this episode of Partnered with A Survivor, David & Ruth have an intimate discussion about how we can be emotionally & behaviorally responsible even when we have been trained into fear & reactivity through violence & abuse. David and Ruth discuss: How we need to drop binary definitions in order to prevent abusers from using their history of trauma as an excuse for current behaviors of coercive control & violence. The importance...