When the courts don’t recognize coercive control, children pay the price. This week on Lessons in Discernment, I’m joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Lisa Hepfner, sponsor of Bill C-223: The Keeping Children Safe Act—a groundbreaking piece of legislation that could transform how family violence is recognized and prevented in Canada. We talk about the stories that inspired the bill, the cultural shift it represents, and what it would mean for survivors and children to finally be protected...
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When the courts don’t recognize coercive control, children pay the price. This week on Lessons in Discernment, I’m joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Lisa Hepfner, sponsor of Bill C-223: The Keeping Children Safe Act—a groundbreaking piece of legislation that could transform how family violence is recognized and prevented in Canada. We talk about the stories that inspired the bill, the cultural shift it represents, and what it would mean for survivors and children to finally be protected...
From Abuse to Authenticity: Religious Conditioning, Sexual Trauma, and Self-Reclamation with Amy Watkins
Lessons in Discernment
40 minutes
2 months ago
From Abuse to Authenticity: Religious Conditioning, Sexual Trauma, and Self-Reclamation with Amy Watkins
What happens when abuse and conditioning erase your sense of self, and the only way you believe you can be loved is as a sex object? This week on Lessons in discernment, I’m joined by Amy Watkins—a therapist turned truth teller and the voice behind @ms.emotionallyslutty. Amy shares her story of growing up under religious conditioning and neglect, surviving sexual abuse, and how those experiences shaped her identity for years. At the same time, she carried a fire inside that refused to go out....
Lessons in Discernment
When the courts don’t recognize coercive control, children pay the price. This week on Lessons in Discernment, I’m joined by Canadian Member of Parliament Lisa Hepfner, sponsor of Bill C-223: The Keeping Children Safe Act—a groundbreaking piece of legislation that could transform how family violence is recognized and prevented in Canada. We talk about the stories that inspired the bill, the cultural shift it represents, and what it would mean for survivors and children to finally be protected...
