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Jill Cory, CPCC, MA
Jill began working as a frontline advocate in a women’s shelter/transition house in the early days of the women’s shelter movement. This began over four decades of work dedicated to supporting women impacted by abuse and ending violence against women.
She has been an advocate, counsellor, researcher, trainer, and author. In each role, she has brought strong feminist values to the field to advance women’s safety and equality for women for women who experience abuse in relationships. In addition to leading women’s support groups, Jill has traveled extensively throughout North America providing training workshops and keynote presentations.
She and Karen McAndless-Davis are the authors of When Love Hurts: A Woman’s Guide To Understanding Abuse in Relationship (Penguin Random House, 2016) and When Love Hurts: Best Practice Framework and Curriculum.

Podcast episodes
Episode 8: Understanding the healing journey
In this episode, we explore the healing journey for women who have experienced abuse.
Episode 7: Mothering, post separation abuse, and the legal system
How men’s abuse profoundly impacts mothering and how that abuse so often continues after separation through the legal system.
Episode 5: Why abusive men are abusive
In this episode, we take on the question women ask again and again: Why is he abusive?
Welcome to Episode 4: The impacts of abuse for women
We want to thank you for joining us for this heavy, but essential, conversation. Be gentle with yourself as you listen; grab your coffee or tea and give yourself the space and time you need. Why we need to shift…
Episode 3: Understanding the power and control wheel
In this episode of the When Love Hurts podcast, we unpack the realities of power and control in abusive relationships.





