What's the real price of safety? Escaping an abusive partner is not just difficult, it's expensive. Moving costs, rent, child care and lawyers all add up, especially if you've already had your money taken or controlled. 

In episode three of There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing, Sally Spicer is joined by survivor advocate Rachael Lloyd, Center for Women’s Economic Security (CWES) founder Rebecca Glenn and Good Shepherd’s Loren Katafono. 

Together they explore: 

• The cost of leaving: How financial abuse follows you after you leave and the high price survivors pay for their freedom. 
• A life controlled: Rachael’s story of moving across the world for what she thought was love, only to have every cent she earned stolen for years.
• Reclaiming independence: The vital work helping victim survivors process their trauma and rebuild their financial futures.

More on There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing:

• Learn more about There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing
• Check out Good Shepherd's Financial Independence Hub, the Centre for Women's Economic Safety and the Lokahi Foundation 
• Keep up with FW on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn and join FW to unlock professional development, training and community
• Learn more about CommBank Next Chapter
• If you or someone you know is affected by domestic, family and sexual violence, contact the national service 1800RESPECT for free and confidential counselling, information and service referral. Call 1800 737 732, chat online 24/7 at www.1800respect.org.au or use the text line on 0458 737 732
• If you or someone you know is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in need of a culturally safe support line, you can call 13YARN (13 92 76)
• In an emergency, or if you are not feeling safe, always call the police on 000

There’s No Place Like Home: Paths to Healing is an FW podcast made in partnership with Commonwealth Bank, who through CommBank Next Chapter, are supporting people within Australia experiencing financial abuse, even if you don't bank with them.