Eva Levina
Author
Eva Levina is the author of the memoir series Death Is No Reason to Stop Living. After 25 years in a marriage she believed was loving, she was discarded when she began standing up for herself. Only much later did she recognize the covert emotional abuse. Following cardiac arrest, abandonment, and a brutal divorce, she began rebuilding at 63, achieving financial independence and publishing her books while also facing lung cancer. Now 66, Eva shares her story with honesty and humor, exploring self-respect, life with the ongoing effects of CPTSD, and the possibilities of starting again.
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Oct. 21, 2026
Coercive Control: The Emotional Abuse You Don’t See with Eva Levina I Ep. 144
A relationship can look calm from the outside while quietly teaching you to ask permission for your own life. In this episode of Beyond the Statistics, Ingrid Dutton sits down with author Eva Levina to explore coercive control, emotional abuse, and the slow loss of independence that can happen in an abusive relationship—even when there are no visible signs of violence. Eva shares how patterns of control developed over decades of marriage, why she didn't fully recognize what was happening w...
Guest: Eva Levina