Breaking the Silence: The Truth About Domestic Violence is a powerful, unflinching guide to understanding and confronting the harsh realities of domestic abuse, written for survivors, students, and professionals alike.

In this essential resource, Josiah Cornell draws from global research, lived experience, and therapeutic insight to uncover the many faces of domestic violence—including coercive control, emotional abuse, narcissistic relationships, financial sabotage, post-separation abuse, and legal manipulation. With clarity and compassion, it explores the hidden dynamics behind closed doors and the long-term trauma survivors carry in silence.

Whether you're a victim seeking healing, a counsellor, support worker, social worker, or frontline responder, or a student studying psychology, social care, or law, this book offers in-depth knowledge and practical tools. From safety planning and trauma recovery to child safeguarding, intersectional abuse, and healing from narcissistic abuse, this is a comprehensive, trauma-informed guide for breaking the cycle.

Including survivor stories, case studies, and strategies for both personal empowerment and systemic change, Breaking the Silence is an urgent call to action—for communities, courts, schools, and society.

This book is more than information—it's validation, awareness, and hope. A must-read for those ready to turn survival into strength and silence into power.

Because safeguarding isn't just a job, it's everyone's responsibility.