As a 41-year-old who finally spoke to a therapist regarding being molested at a very young age, I relate to this too much. I let myself become a victim to more abuse as I grew up. I didn’t tell ANYONE about what happened to me until I was an adult, pregnant with my first daughter. The guilt of never telling anyone and letting him possibly do it to others. The shame I shouldn’t have held. The first boyfriend who took advantage of me. The consistent easy target. I’ve been in therapy for almost a full year, and we’re doing eye movement therapy now. It’s been such a help letting myself heal! I hope this is healing for you!

I found this podcast both profound & courageous. I believe it is imperative to help ourselves, to be transparent & to be unashamed of our life experiences. Highly recommend!

Brave and vulnerable telling of an intimate, personal time. I thought you covered it with a lot of dignity, honesty, and integrity, and really honored your experience and that piece of your story. At the end of the bonus episode you said, if this is all that someone knows about you, you’re good with that, and I thought that sounded like a really peaceful and lovely place for you to be.

Much credit to Tramonti for telling her story, but she and the woman who seems to be interviewing her sound like they’re on quaaludes more than half the time, and they keep repeating the same phrases. Listening to them, my brain feels like it’s moving in slow motion. I’m not sure what the interviewer’s purpose is— is she a psychologist? - but she doesn’t seem to add much substance; she says obvious things and expresses a sort of comatose sympathy. It sounds very amateurish and not insightful. I think this podcast is probably valuable to anyone who is or has been going through a domestic abuse situation in explaining how it really can happen to anyone, but the super slow pace got on my nerves and I had to stop listening.

As each episode unfolded and it became clear the victim was not going to listen to the advice she’d been given, I couldn’t help but worry about the way this terrible choice might validate a listener considering doing the same (Don’t. They never change and there are no answers. Closure comes from you not them). Thanks to divine intervention her plan was thwarted.

A well thought and supremely presented personal story. Grateful to have had the opportunity to hear this experience.

If you love real life and complicated stories told with journalistic integrity, this one is really good. The interviews are thoughtful, the topic is so important for so many people. The juxtaposition of a journalist reporting on domestic violence while also being a victim is such a great reminder that no one is immune. Thanks for sharing your story.

The interwoven dialogue with close friends, family members, and therapists along with the personal first-person reflections really gives this podcast a good rhythm. There is a lot of courage and vulnerability here, and support too. It was good to hear what a supportive friend sounds like, or what a good therapist or father sounds like.

Beautifully written and spoken.

Thank you for sharing your story

Thank you for telling your story…

As a mental health provider who works with primarily victims of domestic violence, I appreciate your story. This is such a raw true story of the victims of domestic violence. Hearing your thoughts and feelings I was reminded of how many women I have heard say their version of your thoughts and feelings. Society paints a picture of domestic violence as a “problem “ in low income homes to uneducated women. Thank you for bringing your story to light. An educated successful woman who was a victim of domestic violence helps bring the entire truth that anyone can be a victim of domestic violence. It was a learning opportunity to hear about you wanting to speak to your abuser and brining a person who has done so and had closure, also explaining that not everyone gets that. Thank you for sharing this story.

Your story, and your voice is changing me. I am a college professor. So was my partner, who abused me. He was a professor at the same University. In the same department. In my desk I kept all the brochures and business cards for legal aid, the social workers, the campus counselors, for my students who were victims of intimate partner violence and would write about it in their papers. They would come to my office and tell their stories, because I am a writer and I tell stories too.I have one of those creative and compassionate professorial souls that immediately sits people at ease, and in my aura they feel safe enough to ask for help. I walked so many girls, and a few young men, and a few more people of all genders, to the counseling office that they were afraid to go to alone. All the while unaware that I needed to go see those counselors and social workers myself. I didn’t realize until I was 29 the kind of trouble I was in. I became a college professor at age 24. I’m not sure how exactly that’s allowed, but there it is. Your kind and honest and authentic and voice, your story, is healing me. I have cried for the first time since February 2001 about my first marriage, which ended with me in a locked “battered women’s shelter,” on a secret location and under police protection, with a two-year-old daughter in tow. These are the best tears, the most healing tears of my life. Thank you. And Thank you. And Thank you.

Amazing and hopeful storytelling. Thank you so much for sharing your story, and your processing of your life, so openly. I think it will help many people who find it. Domestic abuse is so shrouded in secrecy, and it is people like you who help it be seen and more deeply understood.

Really, really good! Love Therapist Farzana and use of tapping in episode 1. Ana Marie— thank you for being incredibly brave and sharing your story. It’s was pretty wild to hear the metamorphosis in your voice from beginning to end—priceless. 💛💛💛

Lovely writing, narration. Authentic. Brave.

There has always been something about Ms Tremonti’s voice that has had the ability to rivet the Canadian nation into a sense of calm assuredness and awareness in all matters of importance in domestic and international. As a survivor of gender based violence who has gone on for the past 30 years to live a “soccer mum” existence free of physical violence; this personal exploration touched upon my own journey into exploring the traumas in my past; the questions I ask myself “the why now”, “where are the shadows” the “how do you confront, not confront”, “have I waited too long”; all of the questions that swirl as this important personal work is accomplished are touched upon; and I feel a little less alone, a little less ‘crazy’ after listening to Anna Maria’s story.

This is an absolutely beautiful, and intimate podcast . Everything is so wonderfully put together, and I’m so glad I found it. ♥️

This was a brave revealing of your experience & I was moved by each & every segment. Having experienced this level of abuse from two former partners I can intimately relate. While trying to forget & move on, we typically push these events out of our memories. But then, something out of the blue triggers a gut wrenching memory, & we’re “there” again. Thank you for opening your story to us; the lack of information & awareness about domestic violence keeps so many oppressed for too long.

Loved this series and I’m so glad she found so much peace and understanding towards the end. You can feel the levity in her voice. Thanks for letting us share this space with you!

The subleties that Anna Marie Tremonti so eloquently relays in her story will ring true to those who have lived or are living with these circumstances. Perhaps even more importantly, it will make others aware, allow others to have more understanding and that this is found among those of us you would least suspect.

Just in the few episodes I feel a connection to the relatable stories that were similar to my own past. The transparency and rawness of these episodes are so powerful.

If you love raw human emotion this is a must listen

No one compares to Anna Maria Tremonti. She has been bringing our nation the best hard hitting reporting and now she reveals a impactful part of her own story that will do so much for so many. Not to be missed. I was riveted from her first sentence.

The topic is important but the narrative is painfully slow.

Thank you for sharing Anna Maria. Be well.

I am 2 episodes in and am excited for the rest to be released.

This is what ive been searching for in a podcast about domestic abuse..this was worth the wait and im hungry for more!