PinnedJessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jan 26, 2023How to Heal from a Trauma Bond — 5 Steps to Put You on a Path to RecoveryLeaving an abusive or narcissistic relationship isn’t always as easy as walking away. When you’ve developed a trauma bond, it can feel…A response icon1A response icon1
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Oct 17“What does that even mean? How can emotions be abused?”In the first episode of Maid, Alex Russell lies awake until Sean passes out, then lifts their daughter out of bed and drives away from the…
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Sep 18Why You Keep Over-Explaining to Your Co-Parent (And How to Stop)You don’t have a communication problem. You have a coercion problem.
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Sep 18Share How Coercive Control Uses Children as the MediumThere is a version of post-separation coercive control that almost nobody talks about, and it is the version that causes some of the…A response icon1A response icon1
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jul 22What No One Tells You About Cluster B Personality DisordersIt is exhausting trying to understand someone whose behavior never adds up. You replay conversations looking for the logic. You make…A response icon7A response icon7
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jun 29Why Courts So Often Believe the AbuserPeople ask me this all the time: “Why do the courts believe the abuser?”
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jun 23The Pattern is the PointSometimes the hardest part of relationship abuse isn’t living through it. It’s trying to explain it to other people.A response icon2A response icon2
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jun 22How Coercive Control Uses Children as the MediumThere is a version of post-separation coercive control that almost nobody talks about, and it is the version that causes some of the…
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Mar 31Ten Steps to Breaking a Trauma BondThere’s a question I hear in some version almost every week from clients, from listeners, from strangers who find their way to my inbox at…A response icon1A response icon1
Jessica Knight, MA, CPCC, NICC·Jan 15When Trauma Bonds Keep You Hoping for a Different Ending“I Don’t Want This… But I’m Still In It”