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Focus on the Family Resource List - Information on Sexual Abuse
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Articles on Spiritual Abuse
| 14-Stage Model of Healing from Sexual Abuse This articles provides a 14-stage model for healing from sexual abuse. |
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| If your god is not God There is a difference — sometimes an enormous difference — between the God of our doctrinal statements and the god we live with every day. |
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| Seeing God in New Way - Recovery From Distorted Images of God It seems that people who believe in a God of love and compassion sometimes experience private images of God which are disturbing. |
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| Spiritual Abuse in the Pulpit and the Pew Pastors should be the last people to perpetrate abuse. The idea is disconcerting and repulsive, but God’s people sometimes do God’s work in destructive ways. |
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| When Religion Goes Bad - Part 1 Maybe we have used religious behaviors addictively. Or used the Bible against other people. Or used our spirituality to protect ourselves from the truth. There are many, many ways in which our religious instincts and behaviors can become distorted and even harmful to ourselves and others. |
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| When Religion Goes Bad - Part 2 Many of us carry in our minds and our spirits the painful effects of religion that has done damage. In this article we look at a variety of ways in which religion can become a problem in our lives — starting with religious addiction. |
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| When Religion Goes Bad - Part 3 In this installment we want to discuss religious codependency. To understand religious codependency it's important to first understand some of the basic dynamics of codependency in general. |
Articles on General Abuse
| Effect of Abuse On Abused Persons How the experience of abuse impacts an abused person is very difficult to predict. The impact of abuse on the abused is also very diverse and difficult to predict. |
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| Effect of Abuse On Abusers There is remarkably little information available about the impact of abuse on the abusive person. Many abusers will not be able to acknowledge that the abuse happened at all — much less that it had a negative impact on them. |
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| Effect of Abuse on Family Dynamics Abuse, neglect and trauma always take place in a social context. The impact of abuse is not limited to the person who has been abused. One prominent impact from the perspective of family systems is the limitation on available roles within the family or abusive system. |
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| Effect of Abuse On Family Members The impact of abuse on non-offending family members and friends has not been studied very extensively. What is clear is that the impact of abuse on relationships is huge — both in the present and later in life. |
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| Seeing Others More Clearly - Part 1 All of us long to love and to be loved. We long to both experience and express respect, kindness and acceptance in our relationships. But our relationships are often marked by tension, misunderstanding and distance rather than by the safety, empathy and closeness we desire. |
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| Seeing Others More Clearly - Part 2 We were created by the God of love to give and receive love. That is who we are. Our fears and defenses are not who we are. Our longing for love, and our need and capacity to love and be loved, are who we are. |
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