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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.

Jill Cory, CPCC

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Jill Cory, CPCC, MA

Podcast episodes

The figure eight model of healing is over top an image of two women talking; episode eight.

Episode 8: Understanding the healing journey

Jan 5, 2026

In this episode, we explore the healing journey for women who have experienced abuse.

A man and woman hold a child's hand on both sides while walking away in the park.

Episode 7: Mothering, post separation abuse, and the legal system

Dec 29, 2025

How men’s abuse profoundly impacts mothering and how that abuse so often continues after separation through the legal system.

When Love Hurts podcast episode about the harms of professional help; a counsellor sits with a client, taking notes.

Episode 6: The harms of help

Dec 22, 2025

How services can repeat dynamics of abuse.

When stand together, arm in arm, walking away with the When Love Hurts podcast art in the foreground.

Episode 5: Why abusive men are abusive

Dec 15, 2025

In this episode, we take on the question women ask again and again: Why is he abusive?

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Welcome to Episode 4: The impacts of abuse for women

Dec 8, 2025

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 of When Love Hurts, a power and control wheel with many dimensions of abuse as spokes of the wheel.

Episode 3: Understanding the power and control wheel

Dec 1, 2025

In this episode of the When Love Hurts podcast, we unpack the realities of power and control in abusive relationships.