Beyond Bruises: Understanding Coersive Control as a Liberty Crime
The most damaging abuse often leaves no bruises. Bren provides a new framework for intimate partner violence, specifically coercive control, serves as a liberty crime. This proposes "Why don't they just leave?" is the wrong question and discusses ways in which an abuser makes leaving the relationship incredibly difficult. Bren explores how therapy helps survivors reclaim their autonomy.
Alternatives to Spanking: Building Connection, Not Compliance
Spanking teaches compliance, not connection. Bren unpacks why physical discipline undermines the lesson you're teaching, and four alternatives that build connection.
Food Noise and Binge Eating Disorder: The Mental Chatter No One Sees
Clients with binge eating disorder describe a relentless mental chatter about food that dominates their days. Clinicians now call it food noise. Here's what it is, why it fuels the binge cycle, and how therapy quiets it. Bren unpacks the complexity of binge eating disorder and the impact of food noise.
