Helen Smith

How important is it for women going through those experiences to be able to label what they're actually going through?

This app is primarily, it's targeting young girls as well, as young as five years old in some cases.

How important is it that we educate the next generation with that language, with prevention tools so they can work through situations that they might come across?

If you weren't introduced to the app and the course, where do you think your mental health fitness would be at today?

That's a depressing thought.

And I am so grateful.

Michelle, thank you so much for joining us on The Briefing.

My pleasure, and I hope it's a help.

That was Michelle, psychologist, mother and survivor of coercive control.

And you can find the new course on the Smiling Mind app.

Just search Smiling Mind in your app store.

Thanks for listening to this episode.

If you or someone you know is experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic family and sexual violence, you can call 1-800-RESPECT on 1-800-737-732.

I'm Helen Smith.

Catch you next time.

listener production hey it's helen smith here welcome to this bonus episode of the briefing the far right has been on the rise across the globe and has become more visible online and here in australia we've seen recent protests with self-proclaimed neo-nazis and the rise of extremist nationalist movements but to understand how these movements grow we need to look back at the history behind them

Charlottesville in Virginia has been dubbed the birthplace of the far-right in the US.

In 2017, it became the epicentre of a violent white supremacist rally.

Neonazis, Klan members and alt-right agitators clashed with counter-protesters, leaving one woman dead and dozens injured.

Pulitzer Prize finalist and independent scholar Deborah Baker's book, Charlottesville, An American Story, unpacks not just that rally, but decades of racism, civic tension and institutional blind spots that allowed it to happen.