*Trigger warning: This episode mentions “intimate partner violence”, “sexual assault,” “rape,” and “domestic violence”.

For the very last episode of sexual assault awareness month, I’m joined by my best friend, fellow sexual assault survivor, and first-ever official podcast guest, Mary Rose Malone. Mary Rose is a foster parent coach, a former child welfare case manager, and a future lawyer. She is my best friend as well as a survivor of intimate partner violence, and she likes to give me (Madison) credit for saving her life. Mary Rose is passionate about improving child safety through political action and community intervention. In her free time, she enjoys talking shit about racism, capitalism, and the patriarchy and hanging out with her pups, Kyreigh and Irving.

In this episode, Mary Rose and I are inviting you to join in on an open, raw, and sometimes candid conversation between best friends. We’re sharing our personal experiences navigating complex, multi-level abusive relationships, as we help each other heal in a way that only best friends could.

Disclaimer: This is an intimate and honest conversation between two friends where we laugh and make jokes about our personal experiences and ourselves as we deal and heal from our traumas.

Episode Highlights

• Our realities of being survivors
• Mary Rose’s experience with being in an abusive relationship
• How that relationship impacted our friendship
• My own experience with emotional abuse in a relationship
• The process of healing
• How we left our abusive relationships

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Resources:

• Website: https://itsmadisonryan.com/ 

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsmadisonryan/

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