WE ROAR Issue 02 - Flipbook - Page 95
RIE PEARSON
Rie Pearson is from North Tyneside. She
lives overlooking the sea and describes
herself as Being on the Edge!
Rie's career background is in policing. She
was a police officer for 27 years and
retired on her 50th birthday due to ill
health. She specialised in Domestic
Violence and Safeguarding, working
strategically for many years.
Rie's book, "Be Kind. No Excuses", is a
guide for teenagers and parents to raise
awareness of the red-flag behaviours that
are a precursor to abuse in partner
relationships.
Rie is the founder of "Be Kind. No
Excuses CIC", which runs workshops
online and face-to-face to increase
awareness of how abusive behaviours
present at the beginning of relationships.
Rie's goal for the future is to travel around
in a battered camper and deliver
workshops on beaches! Oh, and one
million book sales!
We need to recognise what that looks
like at the beginning ("Oh, he was so
lovely when we first got together" is true)
In the police, we call it "Target
Hardening".
For example, we make it difficult for
someone to burgle our house by fitting
an alarm (or buying a dog) To target
harden teenage girls, we need to teach
them to recognise the red flag
behaviours that abusers display. We
also need to teach them to support
each other (females are so pitted
against each other in the media and on
TV etc) We need to teach then and
support them in their self esteem.
Tuse to be as socially unacceptable as
drunk driving.
Connect on my linktree here.
https://www.facebook.com/annemarie.
pearson.14
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