
Embrace the chaos
Welcome to Divine Chaos
At Divine Chaos, we embody resilience, strength, and empowerment. Our mission is to support women who have experienced domestic abuse by offering a community where survivors can connect, heal, and grow together. Every product is thoughtfully crafted to honor your journey and celebrate your story. Together, we find beauty in chaos and build a space where healing transforms into empowerment.
Unmask the Dark Reality of Domestic abuse and
Rise unbreakable
Types of Abuse
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PHYSICAL
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SEXUAL
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EMOTIONAL
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FINANCIAL
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COERCIVE
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DIGITAL
- PSYCHOLOGICAL
PHYSICAL
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Scratching, punching, biting, strangling or kicking.
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Throwing something at you such as a phone, book, shoe or plate.
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Pulling your hair.
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Pushing or pulling you.
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Grabbing you to prevent you from leaving or to force you to go somewhere.
SEXUAL
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Unwanted kissing or touching.
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Unwanted rough or violent sexual activity.
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Refusing to use condoms or restricting your access to birth control.
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Threatening you into unwanted sexual activity.
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Pressuring or forcing you to have sex or perform sexual acts.
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Using sexual insults toward you.
EMOTIONAL
- Calling you names and putting you down.
- Yelling and screaming at you.
- Intentionally embarrassing you in public.
- Preventing you from seeing or talking with friends and family.
- Telling you what to do and wear.
- Damaging your property when they’re angry (throwing objects, punching walls, kicking doors, etc.)
- Blaming your actions for their abusive or unhealthy behavior.
- Threatening to commit suicide to keep you from breaking up with them.
- Threatening to harm you, your pet or people you care about.
- Making you feel guilty or immature when you don’t consent to sexual activity.
FINANCIAL
- Giving you an allowance and closely watching what you buy.
- Placing your wages in their account and denying you access to it.
- Keeping you from seeing shared bank accounts or records.
- Forbidding you to work or limiting the hours you do.
- Preventing you from going to work i.e. by taking your car or keys.
- Getting you fired by harassing you, your employer or coworkers on the job.
- Maxing out your credit cards without your permission.
- Refusing to give you money for food, rent, medicine or clothing.
- Spending money on themselves but not allowing you to do the same.
COERSIVE
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Unreasonable demands.
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Degradation.
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Restricting daily activities.
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Threats or intimidation.
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Monitoring of time.
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Deprivation of food.
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Destruction of possessions.
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DIGITAL
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Tells you who you can or can’t be friends with on Facebook and other sites.
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Sends you negative, insulting or threatening emails, Facebook messages, tweets, direct messages or other messages online.
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Uses sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others to keep constant tabs on you.
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Posts negative things about you.
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Sends you unwanted, explicit pictures and/or demands you send some in return.
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Pressures you to send explicit video or sexts.
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Steals or insists to be given your passwords.
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Constantly texts you and makes you feel like you can’t be separated from your phone for fear that you will be punished.
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Looks through your phone frequently, checks up on your pictures, texts and outgoing calls.
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Tags you unkindly in pictures on Instagram, Tumblr, etc.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
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Gaslighting – manipulating you into doubting your own sanity or reality.
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Moving things around the house, or removing them and returning them later, then denying it.
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Denying that you or they said things.
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Telling you that people have said things about you, or that your friends don’t like you.
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Telling you that you have a mental health condition when you haven’t.
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Making derogatory jokes about you to others in front of you.
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Name calling, telling you you are useless, stupid, worthless and mad.
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Questions you endlessly about everything you do or say.
KNOW THE SIGNS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
- CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR
- INCREASED TENSION OR ANXIETY
- EXCESSIVE SELF BLAME/APOLOGIZING
- DEFENDING THEIR PARTNERS BEHAVIOR
- CONSTANT CONTACT FROM THEIR PARTNER
- ALTERED APPEARANCE
- FINANCIAL STRUGGLES DESPITE NO CLEAR REASON
- RIGID ROUTINE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
- UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
- EXTREME JEALOUSY
- CONTROLLING BEHAVIORS
- QUICK INVOLVEMENT
- ISOLATION
- "PLAYFUL" USE OF FORCE OF SEX
- DR. JEKYL AND MR. HYDE
- VERBAL ABUSE