A rape of a woman jogging in New York highlights two basic elements that need to be in your women's self-defense training program.

Let’s take a look at a vicious stabbing attack and how one of the potential victims ended up successfully defending themselves.

What can you do or teach your kids to do in case an active shooter opens fire in a public place or at school?

Burglaries are a threat to us as the crime can degenerate into other crimes of opportunity if we are in the home.

What can we do to protect ourselves during this dramatic rise in so-called "smash and grab" thefts?

In the city with surging assaults and murders companies are now advising their workers to dress in a way to avoid crime.

The Los Angeles Police Department warning of surging crime wave, including “follow home" robberies. How can we defend against them?

If your individual security situation warrants it, you might want to remove your home's view from Google Maps. Here's how to do it.

You're at the club and a guy follows you into the restroom. You are surprised when he suddenly pushes his way into the bathroom stall. What

You've been led into a closed room. And now he's starting to get aggressive and is positioning you up against a wall. What do we do now?

This real life attack reveals a number of lessons for us as we train to prevent and resist a physical attack or sexual assault.

We are changing the way we report real incidences and cases here on the Women's Self-Defense Community blog.

If your self-defense system has a lot of techniques that depend on the attacker reacting to pain, then you might want to rethink that.

Affecting any one of these elements of the crime triangle will have a dramatic affect on your personal safety and self-defense.

Here are the seven most common mistakes women make that could result in them getting kidnapped, attacked, and/or raped.

Tracie Arlington talks to Dr. Phil about empowering your children with the plans and the techniques to prevent abduction, sexual assault.

You can’t always rely on an order of protection for your safety.  This case of a Cincinnati women protecting herself and her five...

A woman defended herself from an attacker with her car keys. The police mug shot is testimony to the effectiveness of her defense.

In the above video published on the community's YouTube channel, Coach Tracie and instructor Matt talk about the ABCs of self-defense....

Tracie Arlington discusses how to prepare for college and what to be aware of for your safety on campus.