It's an Inside Job

The Psychology of Emotional Abuse and Coercive Control: Rebuilding Self-Worth with Deena Korda

February 23, 2026·58 min
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Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this episode of It’s an Inside Job, we take on the often overlooked reality of domestic abuse with Deena Kordt—advocate, author, and podcaster. Drawing on her lived experience of emotional and psychological trauma, Deena explains how non-physical abuse works, why it’s hard to name, and how it can reshape a person’s sense of self and safety. She shares her path from a strict conservative upbringing to surviving an abusive ma...

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