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Adrianne Allen
Mar 47 min read
El desordenado proceso de la curación: detonantes y experiencias correctivas.
Creo que pensé que una vez que dejara mis situaciones de abuso espiritual, hablara de ellas, me tomara un descanso y volviera a una...
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Adrianne Allen
Mar 46 min read
El desordenado proceso de la curación: el tortuoso camino de reincorporación.
El proceso de volver a participar en una iglesia después de dejar una que ha sido espiritualmente abusiva, ha sido MUCHO más largo, lento...
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Lindsey Medenwaldt
Mar 29 min read
Bitterness: Releasing Resentment and Finding Peace
I honestly thought I had moved past it all, but about a month ago, I was a couple of hours away from the place where it all went down...
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Adrianne Allen
Feb 197 min read
Healing’s Messy Middle: Triggers and Corrective Experiences
I think I believed that once I left my spiritually abusive situations, talked through them, took a break, and re-entered a solid church...
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Adrianne Allen
Jan 296 min read
Healing’s Messy Middle: The Winding Road of Re-Engagement
The process of re-engaging at a church after leaving a spiritually abusive one has been MUCH longer, slower, and more difficult...
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Adrianne Allen
Dec 19, 20247 min read
Healing’s Messy Middle: Taking Time
Many of us have internalized the message that we should simply not allow difficult things to affect us.
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Adrianne Allen
Oct 22, 20248 min read
Spiritual Abuse in a Small Town Church
If anyone should have been able to recognize and call out spiritual abuse, it was us. But, as obvious as it was, it came on so slowly and...
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Guest Author
Aug 21, 20244 min read
Sunday Service on a Spiral.
I woke up early, ready to attend the church service. I was ready in good time, prepared breakfast, and we headed to the church. As we parked
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Naomi Wright
May 28, 20243 min read
From Checklists to Grace (bE+)
If you're reading this post, you most likely know what it's like to doubt your salvation. To feel fear that you might be wrong and that...
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Naomi Wright
Sep 26, 20229 min read
How to Understand the Complexity of Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Anna Kitko is a cult and new religions specialist with Ratio Christi, where she serves as the campus apologist at the University of...
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Naomi Wright
Sep 10, 20229 min read
How do I Support Someone Who is Hurting From Religious Abuse?
Whether we are aware of it or not, we all more than likely know someone who has or is experiencing religious harm on one level or...
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Naomi Wright
Aug 25, 20228 min read
Feeling "triggered" can be debilitating. Here's why it happens and what you can do to help yourself.
I was struggling to handle my anger well. My husband would say something to me, that while not truly the same, felt too similar to things...
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Naomi Wright
Oct 17, 20214 min read
Young Life can do better, and they need to start now because tomorrow is too late.
On October 6th, The Michigan Daily published a Campus Life article entitled, “‘We will not be silenced’: UMich student survivors of Young...
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Naomi Wright
Aug 15, 20214 min read
Do you feel inadequate because of lies you've been told in the past by unhealthy people?
Do you know that feeling of not being good enough? That combination of heaviness and tightness in your chest, with overwhelming sadness...
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Naomi Wright
Mar 21, 20213 min read
Mentoring: the Myths and the Facts of a Mentoring Relationship
My seminary program required me to have a mentor for several semesters. I loved the idea of mentorship, but I didn’t know much about the...
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Naomi Wright
Jan 25, 20213 min read
4 Steps to decisions you can feel solid about today
I had a dream last night. Many, probably, but one that I remember because something really cool happened. In it, I was struggling with...
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Naomi Wright
Dec 21, 20203 min read
Your past does not condemn you, rather what you do with it can commend you.
My precious boy turned 3 today. His favorite gift was a singing Paw Patrol balloon. I made special birthday pancakes and we sang to that...
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Naomi Wright
Dec 7, 20204 min read
Were you raised to believe holidays were sinful? Reclaim this loss and find freedom to celebrate
What’s your theology of celebration? Is it simply a fun time with family and friends? Is the focus on a remembrance of some kind? Or is...
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