Live Well With Elle

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 💜

So I’m bringing this 3-part series back because this information is too important not to keep sharing.

We need to talk about coercive control—because domestic violence is not always a black eye. It can look like isolation, monitoring, intimidation, stalking, threats, controlling your money, controlling where you go, who you talk to, what you wear, and slowly taking away your freedom.

In this series, I also break down the 8-stage intimate partner homicide timeline and the patterns researchers have identified in cases that escalated to homicide.

Please watch all 3 parts. Save them. Share them. Send them to someone who may need to hear this.

Because sometimes understanding what you’re experiencing—and recognizing that it is escalating—can be the information that helps someone reach out for help.

💜 National Domestic Violence Hotline
📞 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
📱 Text START to 88788

🖤 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
📞 Call or text 988 — available 24/7

🚨 If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

You deserve to be safe. You deserve a life that doesn’t require you to live in fear.

Please share this series. Someone may recognize their own relationship in it. 💜

Also go grab the 12 early warning signs of abuse that I missed so you don’t have to free in bio.

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Domestic violence is not just “relationship problems.”

Strangulation. Stalking. Threats. Escalating violence. These are serious warning signs, and they should never be minimized.

If something inside you is telling you that you are not safe, please listen to it. You do not have to wait until it gets worse to ask for help. You do not have to have everything figured out before you reach out.

And if this isn’t your story, share this anyway. Someone watching quietly may need these numbers today.

🖤 National Domestic Violence Hotline
📞 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
📱 Text START to 88788
💻 Chat available at TheHotline.org

🖤 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
📞 Call or text 988
Available 24/7 for anyone experiencing emotional distress or a mental health crisis.

🚨 If you are in immediate or life-threatening danger, call 911.

Please save this. Please share it. You never know whose life it could save.

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I understand why some women feel like the alternative is better. They make you feel that way on purpose. Like the only answer is to just give in and be with them. But it’s not. And you have to fight. Fight like a girl. Use your brain. You are smarter and you have support. Sneak out quietly and Don’t look back.

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Excuse the brain fog. I am just getting out of a DV situation where he would always tell me he wanted to put me in a little box and keep me in his pocket. Trust me when I tell they are the MOST dangerous. Of course I have more resources in my bio.

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It’s the worst pain you will ever feel. But you can come out of this. Better and stronger than before. I know it doesn’t seem like it now. But you will.

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