Leslie Morgan Steiner was in "crazy love" -- that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the dark story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break the silence. (Filmed at TEDxRainier.)

Do you want to learn more about the signs someone may be in an abusive relationship and how you can help them? Check out this video produced by the City of Nelson on the Neighbours, Friends, Families, and Co-Workers program.

An illustrated breakdown of the ‘Power & Control’ wheel shows how patterns of abuse operate across different facets of an intimate relationship.

Through stories and examples, this video shows how emotional abuse and controlling behaviours can slowly take away a person’s independence—and why awareness is the first step toward safety and support.

This video illustrates how abusers use minimization, denial, and blame to invalidate their partner’s experience, evade responsibility, and shift guilt—even when the abuse is real and harmful.

This video breaks down how abuse can escalate, showing the subtle warning signs, patterns of control, and the courage it takes to reach out for help.

This video explains how abusers may manipulate their own children as tools of control to pressure and harm the children’s mother.

This video explains how abusers use isolation—cutting a partner off from friends, family, and support—to maintain power and control.

This video explores how abusers use coercion and threats—instilling fear and pressure—to maintain power and control in a relationship.

This video explains how the concept of male privilege functions as a framework of control—elevating abusers’ power while minimizing or invalidating their partner’s autonomy.

This video highlights that up to 90% of women victimized by intimate partner violence may have experienced a brain injury, for example, from strangulation, being hit on the head, or being shaken. 

Produced by the Abbotsford Police Department and the Mouat Secondary School Theatre Department, this film depicts a violent and possessive high school relationship to raise awareness about red flag behaviours and demonstrate ways of providing support.