Safety, Rights, and Support — All in One Place
Explore clear, trauma-informed guides on staying safe, understanding your rights, planning next steps, and supporting loved ones. This hub brings together the most-read resources across AbuseSupportHub so you can find what you need at your own pace.
Immediate Safety & Leaving Safely
Articles focused on crisis steps, staying safe in the short term, and planning a safer way out.
What to Do After a Scary Incident
Calm steps for the first hours and days after an abusive episode, including safety and documentation ideas.
Safety Tips When You Can’t Leave Yet
Practical ways to reduce risk and plan ahead when leaving is not yet possible or safe.
How to Prepare to Leave Safely
A gentle, step-by-step overview of what to think about before leaving an abusive situation.
What to Pack in an Emergency “Go Bag”
Ideas for documents, essentials, and comfort items that can support you in a quick exit.
Staying Safe After You Leave
Ways to protect your privacy, routines, and location once you have left the relationship.
Leaving Safely With Pets
Planning for the safety and care of animals when abuse and control involve family pets.
Digital & Technology Safety
Guides to help you keep your devices, accounts, and online activity more private and secure.
Digital Safety Checklist for Survivors
A calm, plain-language checklist for phones, apps, email, and online accounts.
Signs of Digital Abuse
How control and monitoring can show up through texts, social media, and shared devices.
Documenting Digital Harassment Safely
Options for saving screenshots, messages, and emails while keeping your safety in mind.
Digital Minimalism for Survivors
Ways to simplify your digital life so it feels more secure and less overwhelming.
Protecting Your Location Information
How to reduce the chance of someone tracking your movements through apps and devices.
Technology Safety Basics
An overview of safer settings, passwords, and backup plans for your devices.
When Social Media Becomes Abuse
Recognizing harmful patterns on social platforms and adjusting your settings safely.
Legal, Evidence & Court Preparation
Information to help you prepare calmly for legal steps, documentation, or talking with a lawyer.
How to Collect Evidence Safely
Ideas for saving messages, photos, and documents with a focus on safety first.
Documenting Patterns of Abuse
Simple ways to track incidents over time so the bigger picture is easier to show.
Preparing Emotionally for Court
What to expect emotionally and how to care for yourself before, during, and after hearings.
What to Expect When Talking to a Lawyer
A calm overview of first meetings, questions to ask, and how to share your story at your pace.
What Financial Abuse Looks Like
Common tactics that limit access to money, work, and financial independence.
What Is Coercive Control?
An explanation of coercive control, why it matters legally, and how it impacts daily life.
Emotional Abuse & Manipulation
Articles that name patterns like gaslighting, love bombing, and stonewalling so they’re easier to recognize.
Signs You’re Experiencing Emotional Abuse
How emotional abuse can look and feel in everyday life, even without physical violence.
What Gaslighting Really Looks Like
Examples of gaslighting and how it can impact your memory, confidence, and sense of reality.
Understanding Love Bombing
Why intense affection early on can sometimes be part of an abuse cycle, not a sign of deep love.
When Communication Shuts Down: Stonewalling
How silent treatment, refusal to talk, and shutdowns can be used as control.
Living Like You’re Walking on Eggshells
What it means when you’re constantly bracing for the next outburst or criticism.
Emotional Flooding and Overload
Why your body and mind can feel overwhelmed and how to ground yourself gently.
When They Rewrite History
Recognizing when someone denies or twists past events to keep control.
Why Abuse Often Builds Slowly
Understanding how small shifts over time can add up to a harmful pattern.
Coercive Control, Threats & Stalking
Resources that explain subtle and overt tactics used to instill fear, compliance, or surveillance.
Early Warning Signs of Coercive Control
Behaviours that may indicate someone is trying to slowly control your time, choices, and connections.
The Cycle of Abuse Explained
A gentle overview of tension, incident, repair, and calm phases many survivors describe.
Dating Red Flags to Notice Early
Subtle signs on dates or in new relationships that may point to future control or harm.
Early Signs of Stalking
When repeated contact, following, or monitoring crosses into stalking behaviour.
Threats, Intimidation & Scaring Tactics
How verbal threats, gestures, and property damage can also be forms of abuse.
Patterns of Social Isolation
Recognizing when you are being slowly separated from friends, family, or support.
When Jealousy Becomes Control
How accusations and constant suspicion can be used to monitor and restrict you.
Constant Accusations & “Micro-Cheating” Claims
Why being blamed for imagined betrayals can be part of a control pattern.
Healing, Boundaries & Supporting Others
Resources on rebuilding life, caring for children, and supporting yourself and others with compassion.
Healthy Boundaries After Abuse
Ideas for setting gentle but firm limits in new and existing relationships.
Rebuilding Confidence After Abuse
Small, realistic steps for reconnecting with your strengths and voice.
What Is Trauma Bonding?
Why strong attachment can exist alongside harm, and what this means for healing.
Feeling Guilty About Leaving
Common reasons survivors feel guilt and gentle ways to reframe those thoughts.
How Trauma Affects Decisions
Why choices can feel foggy or urgent, and how to slow things down where possible.
Helping Children Feel Safe
Ways to talk with children, respond to their worries, and rebuild a sense of safety.
Parenting Through Abuse
Support for balancing your safety with children’s needs in a very difficult situation.
Shared Parenting With an Abusive Ex
Strategies for communication, documentation, and boundaries when co-parenting is required.
How to Support a Friend Experiencing Abuse
Listening, believing, and offering help without pressure or judgment.