Physical Abuse

It can include punching, hitting, slapping, kicking, strangling, or physically restraining a partner against their will. It can also include driving recklessly, invading your physical space, & in any other way making you feel physically unsafe.

Emotional Abuse

Emotional manipulation through verbal & physical humiliation, threats, mind games, extreme jealousy, cruel behaviour & constant accusations are all methods of verbal & emotional abuse. 

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Sexual Abuse

It can involve rape or other forced sexual acts, or withholding or using sex as a weapon. Unwanted or non-consensual touching as well as using guilt or other forms of manipulation to force sexual acts are all categorized as sexual abuse.

Financial Abuse

Being withheld from having money, a job, your own bank accounts, or a say in your own finances is a form of abuse that provides the abuser with additional control & will often prevent someone from having the means to leave.

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Psychological Abuse

When someone, through a series of actions or words, wears away at your sense of mental wellbeing and health. It often involves making you doubt their own sanity & can include gas-lighting, creating dependency, & isolating you from supports.

Spiritual/Cultural Abuse

When your particular cultural identity is used to inflict suffering, or as a means of control. Not letting you observe your faith, using racial slurs, threatening to ‘out’ you  to friends/ family, or isolating you when you don't speak the language.

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Medical/Neglect

Having medical treatment, health care or medications withheld from you; deliberately keeping you ill or from recovery or controlling your reproductive agency over your own body is a form of abuse that will often prevent someone from having the ability to leave or recover from injury or illness. 

Digital/Cyber

When someone uses technology, social media, & other online tools to harass, stalk, manipulate, blackmail or otherwise inflict retaliatory actions against you. This can include keeping track of you through your phone's GPS, posting compromising pictures of you online, bullying you through social media.  

Court/Using Legal System

When someone deliberately uses the courts or legal proceedings to further harass or control you. This may include deliberately dragging out proceedings, refusing to engage in mediation, going against court orders, filing nuisance motions, and/or using contact orders to harass you.