🌼 Finding Hope Again: How Four Voices Is Changing Lives for Women Facing DV, Coercive Control & Isolation

When you’re living through domestic violence, financial abuse, coercive control, or the emotional chaos of divorce, it can feel like you’re completely invisible. It can feel like no one sees you, no one hears you, and no one understands the fear, exhaustion, or loneliness you’re carrying.

If that’s where you are right now—or if you’ve ever been there—this blog post is for you.

Recently on The Divorce Course Podcast, I interviewed Jo West, the founder of a life-changing Australian charity called Four Voices. After speaking with Jo and learning about the work happening across the country, Mum and I wholeheartedly agree:

✨ Four Voices is one of the most important and urgently needed services for women today.

Whether you’re escaping domestic violence, recovering from coercive control, navigating homelessness, feeling socially isolated, or simply don’t know where to turn next…
Four Voices is a safe place where you will be met with humanity, compassion, and zero judgment.

This is not just another support service.
This is connection, dignity, and hope—brought directly to the women who need it most.

What Is Four Voices?

Four Voices is a national charity dedicated to supporting women experiencing:

• Domestic violence

• Coercive control

• Financial abuse

• Homelessness

• Social isolation

• Tech-based abuse

• Disconnection from friends, family, or community

Their mission is simple but powerful:
To give women a voice when they feel silenced.

They do this through:

🚐 Mobile support vans

Driving through towns and suburbs, meeting women exactly where they are.
No appointments. No forms. No judgment.

📞 Phone-based support

For women who are too scared to talk, too isolated to ask for help, or too watched to call a hotline.

💬 Connection, conversation & compassion

Sometimes the thing that saves a woman’s life is simply being seen.

Why Four Voices Exists: The Hidden Truth Most People Never See

During our conversation, Jo shared stories that were heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply human.

Women who were too afraid to leave the house.
Women who were sleeping in cars but still going to work.
Women who had no phone, no support network, no one checking in.
Women who had escaped DV but were now alone and terrified of every next step.

Some had been living with coercive control for decades.

Some had never told a soul what they were living through.

And yet, every single one of them shared the same fear:

“What if no one believes me?”
“What if no one helps me?”
“What if I’m truly alone?”

This is why Four Voices matters.
Because when women stop reaching out, that’s when they need support the most.

The Impact: Real Women, Real Change

Jo told the story of a woman who had lived through 25 years of domestic violence.

Twenty-five years.
And she had never once spoken to a support service.

But when the Four Voices van rolled up, she felt safe enough—just safe enough—to say:
"I think I need help."

This was the beginning of her new life.

Stories like this aren’t rare.
They’re happening every single week through the volunteers, vans, and phone support provided by Four Voices.

Why Mum and I Believe in This Service So Deeply

In our work through The Divorce Course, we meet countless women struggling with:

• Leaving an abusive partner

• Being monitored digitally

• Feeling isolated during separation

• Losing access to money

• Being scared to seek help

• Feeling unheard or dismissed

Four Voices steps in where traditional systems often fail—
with human connection first.

This is why we believe in this charity.
This is why we support them.
And this is why we’re asking you to learn more.

Because the more people who know about Four Voices, the more women we can reach before things become unsafe.

🤝 How You Can Get Involved

Four Voices makes it incredibly easy to support women safely and meaningfully.

⭐ 1. If you need help — reach out

You can connect with Four Voices confidentially through:

• Their vans

• Their website

• Their phone support

If you're scared, lonely, unsure, or recovering from trauma…
This is a safe starting point.

⭐ 2. If you want to volunteer ...they need you

You don’t need qualifications.
You don’t need training.
You only need a kind heart and willingness to listen.

⭐ 3. If you want to donate it truly changes lives

Every dollar helps keep the vans running and the phone lines open.
Even small donations make a big difference.

⭐ 4. If you’ve survived DV.. you can help another woman survive

Sometimes the greatest gift is saying:
"I’ve been where you are. You’re not alone."

When You’re Going Through Hell… Look for the Helpers

If you take only one message from this blog post, let it be this:

You are not invisible.
You are not alone.
There are helpers. And Four Voices is one of them.

No matter where you are on your journey
leaving, separated under one roof, rebuilding, or still trying to find the courage to speak
there is support waiting for you.

And if you feel strong enough now to help another woman…
you could be the person who changes her life.

Learn more about Four Voices

👉 Website: https://www.4voices.org.au 
👉 Instagram: @4voicesau
👉 Ways to help: Volunteer, donate, or share their mission

Listen to the podcast episode where I interview Jo