Through the enactment of Om’s Law, Utah is formally recognizing the urgent necessity of closing the knowledge gap regarding the true, multifaceted nature of intimate partner and family violence. In the post-#MeToo era, the response to women articulating the reality of men’s violence has been a systematic rollback of bodily autonomy and labor equity. The political climate has shifted so…
U.K. law enforcement is finally confronting a chilling, yet frequently overlooked, instrument of coercive and controlling behavior: the tactical abuse of household pets. This February, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is launching a specialist training program for more than 150 senior investigators, casework managers, and decision-makers. The curriculum is designed to sharpen the investigative eye for the hidden…
For World Diabetes Day 2025, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) championed a theme of Diabetes and Well-being, with a specific focus on the workplace. The campaign urged employers to combat stigma and foster supportive environments — a worthy cause, but one that illuminates a troubling blind spot at the heart of global diabetes advocacy. For millions of survivors of intimate partner…
Canada stands on the verge of a historic legal transformation. With the Protecting Victims and Vulnerable Persons Act, lawmakers aim to lead peer democracies. Specifically, Canada will codify femicide within the Criminal Code Consequently, the country may become the first among its peers to act. On December 9, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled Bill C-16. He introduced sweeping legislation…
A list of the countries that have criminalized femicide and the corresponding legislation.
Narcissism is one of the most searched and most misunderstood concepts in contemporary psychology. It is simultaneously overused as a casual insult and underestimated as a clinical phenomenon — which means that the people most affected by it, the ones living inside relationships with narcissistic people or recovering from them, often have the least accurate picture of what they are…
Recovery from narcissistic abuse is not a single conversation. It is a sustained process — of recognizing what happened, recalibrating a nervous system that was reorganized around threat, reconstructing an identity that was systematically dismantled, and building the behavioral patterns that a recovered life actually requires. That process takes time. It takes consistency. And it takes a framework designed for…
Narcissistic abuse is subtle. It often begins with the euphoric intensity of love-bombing – a manipulation tactic used to lull the target’s defenses to sleep. By the time the harm becomes undeniable, the targeted person has often been inside it for months or years, and the damage — to their perception, their identity, their trust in their own judgment —…
Maybe you came across this term while searching for language that matched what you were feeling. Maybe a therapist mentioned it, or you saw it in a support group, or you found yourself reading a description of it at two in the morning and felt, for the first time, that someone had named something you had been trying to articulate…
This year, UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism is spotlighting the crisis of gender-based digital violence.