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Anna Moss BA, C.PAL[inc]
Anna Moss Quick Facts
Main Areas: preventing and coming back from abusive relationshipsCareer Focus: Author, Speaker, Workshop Leader
Affiliation: Survivors in Action Board Member, American Writers and Artists Fellow
A passionate advocate of the entrepreneur and the individual, Anna Moss has worked as a freelance writer for growing companies since 1991.
During 17 years in the Pacific Northwest, Anna worked as a Certified Vendor with Microsoft contributing to content read by millions worldwide. When not documenting software, she worked at refurbishing a horse farm in the Cascade foothills, she rescued cats and dogs, raised horses, hiked, hosted bonfires and dinner parties.
Anna’s life has been shaped by fortuitous events, happy accidents as well as tragedy. These experiences have taught her the value of endurance and imagination for overcoming adversity. They also showed her the enormous capacity for good in the world and resilience in the individual.
Her experience at the hands of a master abuser in mid-life has been her greatest test. Her response is her first book, a mind map of interpersonal abuse: RELATIONSHIP RED FLAGS—TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
All abuse occurs along a spectrum of severity and visibility.
What you tolerate increases.
Evil disguises itself as good.
Abusers play on your emotions.
Abusers exploit your vulnerabilities.
Hoping things will get better is a trap.
Feeling compassion for an abuser is a trap.
Abuse is a con and it gets worse over time.
Children and animals are at risk in abusive households.
Another person's behavior is about them, not you.
Inadequate self image sets you up for being targetted by an abuser.
IF YOU THINK YOU DON'T KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S DEALING WITH ABUSE, IT'S BECAUSE SHE HASN'T TOLD YOU.
The highest risk age groups are 14 to 44 and over 65.
Domestic abuse causes 80,000 health care visits a day.
One woman in 10 is being abused right now.
One woman in three will be abused in her lifetime.
Forty-three women are murdered every day by their intimate partner.
Domestic abuse costs eight million workdays a year.
Domestic abuse costs six million days of household work and daycare a year.
Five million children witness their mother, siblings or animals being abused every year.
