Fighting Back
This is a classic RISK! episode from January 2014, and it holds up with a particular kind of ferocity.
(Content note: sexual assault)
Ellie Jackson spent 12 years convincing herself she had moved on from being raped at a college party her freshman year. She'd built a careful system for managing intimacy, or avoiding it, and mostly it held. Then a routine visit to Planned Parenthood, a persistent social worker, and an accidental encounter with a Crest commercial undid all of it at once.
(Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence, child abuse)
Liz Stewart grew up with a sociopathic father…
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