Breaking Good will be released in November, with 1000 copies given to “people who need it”. “There was a lot of violence, coercive control. I was young, just 20. The psychological stuff was worse than the physical,” Mead said. When her partner punched holes in the wall of her home, she felt “grateful”. “He did it instead of punching me in the face . I lived in fear.” When she was six months’ pregnant with their child he “got angry and threw me on the floor”.
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Christchurch businesswoman Lisa Mead has written a book, Breaking Good, covering her domestic violence experiences and how she spent more than 10 years rebuilding her life.