What happens when the fairytale turns into a survival story? At age 22, Nadine thought she’d found her happily ever after when she married Jordan Belfort—the Wolf of Wall Street. Their life together looked like a dream. But behind closed doors, that glamour quickly gave way to infidelity, narcissistic abuse, and the chaos of addiction.

You know that moment when you realize you’ve been silencing your own truth for years? When your efforts to be nice or helpful weren’t kindness but instead survival? There’s a trauma response many of us never learn to name… and even fewer learn to heal. It’s not fight. It’s not flight. It’s not freeze. It’s fawning.

Join us as Dr. Christine Cocchiola—clinician, coach, professor, survivor, and leading expert on coercive control—uncovers the truth about coercive control, the invisible thread that weaves through all forms of abuse, and when children are involved, its impact can last generations.