“Silence isn’t peace—it’s survival.”

 Pips Promise is an advocacy organization dedicated to ending coercive control and parental alienation. We create public awareness, deliver accessible educational resources, and run programs and events that translate research into real-world help. 

Our work centers survivors and children while equipping parents, educators, clinicians, legal professionals, and community leaders to recognize patterns, respond safely, and disrupt harm early. Through trainings, peer support, helpline referrals, policy education, and collaborative campaigns, we advance trauma-informed practices and system accountability. 

We champion protective parenting, healthy attachment, and child-first decision-making—because every family deserves safety, stability, and respect.  We also give a voice to those who cannot be heard—children, parents, and grandparents. 

We amplify your stories, promote your voices, and offer comfort and community. If you are a child, an alienated parent or grandparent, we provide a platform to carry your message with dignity and care. Pips Promise turns knowledge into action, and action into change. 

I am a survivor of both child and adult domestic violence, a mother and grandmother, and the founder of Pips Promise—an advocacy organization dedicated to ending coercive control and parental alienation. I launched Pips Promise in September 2025 after nine years co-parenting my granddaughter and confronting a family crisis that revealed how slowly our systems and society recognize non-physical abuse—and how failing to act early can lead to devastating, sometimes irreparable outcomes.

Two years earlier, a coercively controlling relationship entered my granddaughter’s world. She shared accounts of emotional abuse, isolation, and a household dynamic where discipline and decision-making were dominated by an abusive pattern of control. After weeks of careful documentation and due diligence, we sought protective measures through appropriate legal channels and alerted child-safety professionals. Shortly thereafter, my contact with my granddaughter was abruptly cut off and framed as her “choice”—an all-too-common feature of parental alienation.

The grief of losing contact with a living child I had loved and cared for over twelve years broke me. I fell into debilitating depression—then sought immediate help from my therapist, knowing that to show up for my granddaughter and for other families, I had to heal and regain strength. I immersed myself in research and found clear language for what survivors endure: coercive control and parental alienation—forms of abuse too often minimized or misunderstood in courtrooms and communities. I quickly learned we were not alone—and that countless parents, grandparents, and children are living this same story.

Pips Promise was born from that clarity—and from a vow I made on my front porch when my granddaughter was just months old: to protect and care for her with every thread of my being. Today, I channel lived experience into action—building trauma-informed education, survivor-centered resources, and collaborative campaigns that equip parents, educators, clinicians, legal professionals, and community leaders to recognize patterns early, respond safely, and disrupt harm before it escalates. I believe every family deserves safety, stability, and respect—and I’m committed to ensuring the law, and the culture, recognize coercive control and alienation as the abuse they are.