Common Sense Safety for Women by Joanne Morin Correia blends memoir, research, and practical guidance to help women live more safely in a world where violence and harassment remain persistent threats. Drawing on childhood trauma, sexual assault survival, international business travel risks, and protecting her daughter from attempted attacks, Correia transforms personal pain into a roadmap for empowerment.
The book exposes the ongoing crisis of violence against women in the U.S., from domestic abuse, rape, and trafficking to the cultural conditioning that teaches fear early. Correia stresses that fear, when understood, can be a survival tool rather than a burden.
Chapters cover abduction prevention, predator psychology, distraction crimes, cyber safety, and financial security, equipping women with strategies rooted in situational awareness, rapid decision-making, and realistic self-defense. Correia also confronts systemic failures-underfunded shelters, legal gaps, weak protections-while advocating for societal change.
At its core, the book is deeply personal: a call to help mothers, daughters, wives, and professionals trust instincts, prepare for danger, and reclaim confidence in both public and private spaces. Supplemented with resources, references, and printable safety posters, Common Sense Safety for Women is a survival guide and a call to action. Urgent yet hopeful, it shows that while we cannot eliminate all threats, we can live with resilience, vigilance, and common sense. Correia taught self-defense for years, listening to women's stories of survival. This book is her way of passing forward those hard lessons, strategies, and the belief that women deserve safe, empowered lives. She hopes every reader finds not just knowledge here, but courage, resilience, and the confidence to trust her instincts.
