Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
how victims are affected by and respond to abuse, awakening from the fog, getting free, healing & recovery, hope
When a person's life is marinated in trauma, that has profound effects on the individual. When a connected group of people is systemically traumatized (such as the Jews in the holocaust) studies show this has negative effects down several generations. And what if a whole society is systemically traumatizing some of its members? The three… Continue reading “Marinated in trauma” – generational transmission of trauma. Diane Langberg & Phil Monroe
Trigger warning. "It's like the abuser's evil was shared with me and in a sense I became one with it." The sexual intimacy a woman has with her husband means that they are "one flesh" — whatever that phrase means. For me, the pollution of an abuser having sexual intercourse with me affected me to… Continue reading Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children
