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Posts
- What is Economic Abuse?
- What is Reproductive Coercion?
- You are God’s Daughter
- You Are God’s Daughter – II
- You Are God’s Daughter – III
- What is Your Worth in God’s Eyes? What Does the Bible Say?
- Must We Submit to Abuse?
- Are Women Called to Obey Their Husbands?
- How Do You Know When You Are Being Abused?
- How Do You Know When You Are Being Abused – 2
- What Should You Do If You Think You Are Being Abused?
- Which Friends Can You Turn to for Support?
- What is a Safety Plan?
- The Clothesline Project
- How a Pastor Should NOT Counsel an Abused Woman
- Why Does He Do That? Why Does an Abuser Abuse?
- Domestic Violence Statistics about Children for 2011
- Teen Dating Abuse
- When Men Stand against Domestic Violence
- What About the Children?
- God Wants Us to Be Free – Part 1
- God Wants Us to be Free – Part 2
- How Can Friends Help Abuse Victims?
- Should You Try Marriage Counseling?
- My Experience with Marriage Counseling
- Does God Say an Abuse Victim Must Stay?
- Does “Turn the Other Cheek” Mean We Must Submit to Abuse?
- My Story of Abuse
- Divorce Is Good?
- Do Abusers Know What They Are Doing?
- After the Abuse is Over, How Do You Deal with the Anger?
- Leaving an Abusive Relationship is the Most Dangerous Time for a Victim
- How Can We PREVENT Domestic Violence?
- How Can a Formerly Abused Woman Heal?
- What is Gaslighting? Another Word for Psychological Abuse
- The Frog in Boiling Water
- How to Recognize a Potentially Abusive Relationship
- How Does Verbal and Emotional Abuse Make You Feel?
- Merry Christmas to My Readers
- Happy New Year
- What Happens to the Brains of Adults Who Were Abused As Children?
- What Does Biblical Submission Really Mean?
- What’s a Husband’s Role in a Godly Marriage?
- How to Assess the Danger of a Fatality by an Abuser
- May I Recommend Some Great Blogs?
- What to Say to a Friend in a Domestic Violence Relationship
- Steps Friends Can Take to Help Victims of Domestic Violence
- What is CHILDHOOD Domestic Violence?
- How About Some Good News?
- Things to Know Before You Give Your Heart Away
- How Could Thinking of Marriage as a Contract Help Abuse Victims?
- Don’t Cover It Up
- A Journey Through Emotional Abuse
- How Should We Raise Our Daughters?
- Men Helping to End Domestic Violence
- Men Helping to End Domestic Violence – 2
- Tattoos and Violence
- Abused Women Following the Shepherd
- The “In”Justice System
- The “In”Justice System – II
- A New Idea for Handling DV Court Cases
- Healing for Kids and Teens in Families of DV
- What is Emotional Abuse?
- How Can an Abuse Victim Know If/When to Reconcile?
- Abuse is not a “marital issue”
- Lies Childhood Domestic Violence Teaches and the Truths that Set Victims Free
- How Can We Fight Human Trafficking?
- Holidays Are Painful for the Abused
- Satan is NOT Stronger than God
- Returning (Reluctantly) to the Days of Emotional Abuse
- When Churches Get it Wrong
- How Churches Can Get it Right
- Children of Domestic Violence Champion
- The Lord Gives and the Lord Takes Away
- A Crisis in the Family Courts
- Hope for the Family Court System
- Not Wallowing, Moving Forward
- Handling Grief
- My Writing Journey – I C Summer Blog Tour
- Pregnancy and Domestic Violence
- Domesticshelters.org is Here!
- How Can We as a Society Prevent Domestic Violence?
- When Emotional Abuse Turns Physical. How Can a Victim Prepare?
- Potential Police Response to Domestic Violence Calls
- Forgiving Yourself
- How to Forgive Yourself
- Thanks Mom
- Live at Peace
- Come as You are
- Holding Your Abuser Accountable – Part 1 of 4
- Holding Your Abuser Accountable – Part 2 out of 4
- Holding Your Abuser Accountable – Part 3 of 4
- Holding Your Abuser Accountable – Part 4 of 4
- Do You Ever Get Depressed?
- Boundaries to the Rescue
- When God Intervenes
- We Store Our Trauma in Our Bodies
- Discerning your Danger Level – An App
- Is it OK to Remarry After Divorce?
- Are You Ready to Date?
- How to Meet the Right Man?
- Safety Guidelines for Dating
- Make a Potential Husband “Run the Gauntlet”
- How/When To Include Your Kids?
- Things are not what they seem
- Does the Bible Allow Leaving an Abuser?
- Breaking Free from Financial Abuse
- I don’t want to look back
- DV Victim & Parent-What’s it Feel Like?
- DV Victim and Parent – What to Do?
- What Do I Lean On?
- We are God’s Bride
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- Honor DVAM by Seeking Healing for You
- Honor DVAM by Educating Your Church
- Honor DVAM by Helping a Current or Former DV Victim
- Heaven is Made Sweeter by Suffering
- Why I Started Writing
- Advice to a Repentant Abuser
- Coming out of the Darkness
- No Contact? How Do I Do That?
- Why Do I Want to Take My Abuser Back?
- My Second Book: A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse
- God-Breathed
- Do Not Be Afraid
- Protecting Your Kids in Family Court
- What If My Ex Sexually Abuses My Child?
- Drowning – A Great Novel About DV
- The Lord Calls for Justice
- Help for Sexual Assault
- Do You Isolate Yourself?
- A Letter to Friends of DV Victims
- Forgiveness – Seriously?
- Family Court through the Eyes of a CFI
- Abusers Are Liars
- Our Stories Matter
- What If It Isn’t Well With My Soul?
- Will I Ever Be Completely Healed from My Past?
- How to Heal Your Soul from Childhood Abuse
- We Can Comfort Others As We’ve Been Comforted
- Empower Yourself by Changing the Cycle of Abuse in Society
- Healing your Anger After Abuse
- Heal Your Anger with God – Let His Light Get In
- How God Used Jacob’s Wrestling to Heal Him
- When God Doesn’t Answer Our Prayers
- Should You Get a Restraining Order, (PPO)?
- More About Protection/Restraining Orders
- Are All Abusers Sociopaths?
- How Can You Protect Yourself from a Sociopath?
- The Comparison Trap
- Seeking Help from the Church While Being Abused
- Announcing: DV Guide for Churches
- What Issues Do You Face?
- My Slow Journey to Health
- Spotting and Dealing with a Bully
- Standing Up for Yourself by Using Boundaries
- Forget Me Not, by Amy Daumit
- A Bump in the Road
- I Am So Thankful for DomesticShelters.org
- Your New Name
- Invalidation – A Favorite Tool of an Abuser
- A Path to Hope by Rose Saad
- In Order to Heal, We Must Feel
- Helping Employees with Domestic Violence
- God Isn’t Afraid of Our Mess
- Your Worth Is Infinite
- Why Do I Still Love My Abuser?
- Help! I’m Getting Divorced, Now What?
- How Amy Found Peace
- What Does the Bible Say about Abuse?
- God Values You Over Your Marriage
- Fighting the Strategies of a User
- How to Find a Good DV Lawyer
- How Can We Protect Our Kids from Sexual Abuse?
- Feeling Amazing!
- Don’t Try to Diagnose Your Abuser
- A Garment of Praise
- How Can Family Courts Be Made Safer in DV Cases?
- What Makes a Relationship Healthy?
- Why Do People Often Take the Side of the Abuser?
- What Voices Are You Listening To?
- How Can Group Counseling Help a DV Survivor?
- Are the New DV Safety Apps Really Safe?
- Escaping Your Abuser with Your Pets
- The Lion of Judah
- Prosecuting DV Offenders
- Do I Need Professional Counseling?
- Domestic Violence and Addictions
- That Crazy-Making Honeymoon Stage
- Let Abusers Reap What They Sow
- How Do We Make Sense of the Bible?
- Learning to Say “No”
- Finding the Courage to Ask for Change
- Should I Stay or Leave?
- How Would It Feel to Get Your Life Back?
- Has Your Faith Hit a Wall?
- Creating YOUR Reality in Court
- How Can We Keep Our Kids Safe?
- Change Just One Thing
- Let’s Encourage the Church to Stop Enabling Abusers
- Stop That Negative Self-Talk
- If God Is Loving, Why Is the World So Evil?
- Where Was God During Your Tragedy?
- Do You Have a Narcissistic Parent?
- Healing from Your Narcissistic Parent
- What Lies Do You Believe?
- Let’s Be Real
- Domestic Violence Experienced by Men
- Comparing the Experiences of a Female With a Male DV Victim
- Do Males Experience the Same Amount of DV as Females?
- What Does the Bible Say About Domestic Violence?
- What Does “Laying Down Your Life” Look Like?
- How Do YOU View God?
- Living Life WITH God – What Would That Be Like?
- Why Do I Feel I Must Be Perfect?
- How Changing Your Posture Can Change Your Life
- Do You Have a Target on Your Back?
- Save Marriage at all Costs? Really?
- Why Do I Treat Myself Poorly?
- Do You Experience Toxic Shame?
- Pastors, Protect Your Church
- Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Biblical Divorce – A Pastor’s Perspective
- How Can We Heal Our Hearts?
- Are You Being Abused?
- Don’t Hide Your True Self
- How to Forgive the Unforgivable?
- Do You Have A Father Wound?
- A Mother’s Blessing
- Becoming a Person Who Recognizes Their Own Worth
- On the Road to Finding Self-Worth
- Squashing your ANTs – (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
- The Voice of a Sexual Abuse Survivor
- Surviving the Holidays
- Do You Know the Signs of Verbal Abuse?
- Making the Church a Safe Place
- Biblical Grounds for Divorce
- Steps to TRUE Reconciliation
- Thinking Through If/When You Should Leave
- How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
- How the Abuse You Receive Affects Your Kids
- Rebuilding Your Children’s Trust
- Submission – What the Bible Really Says
- Do You Over-Function?
- Giving Up Our Tendency to Overfunction
- Take Off the Pain Goggles Before Dating Again
- What Does Attachment Have to Do With PTSD?
- The Gift of Retreat and Asking Big Questions
- What is Spiritual Abuse?
- What Stops Domestic Violence?
- Self-Care as an Act of Trust
- Techniques to Help Anxiety and Dissociation
- My Interview on Halfway There
- Is the Church Waking Up?
- Can EMDR Really Heal Trauma?
- The Long Journey from Victim to Survivor to Thriver
- How SHOULD the Church Respond to Abuse?
- Self-Care During Quarantine
- Jesus’ Attitude Toward Women
- Jesus’ Attitude Toward Women – Part 2
- How Can I Get My Abuser to Change?
- Intention Versus Agenda
- Survivor Story – Making Beauty from Ashes
- Family Courts – Protecting Children?
- How to Deal with Depression – Part Two
- Story of a Male DV Survivor
- Women Can’t Speak in Church, Right? Ah…WRONG!
- How to Deal with Depression
- Why We Do the Things We Do
- The Best Books To Read About Emotional Abuse
- Hanging Onto Hope Podcast
- When Divorce Saves Lives
- When Marital Counseling is a Bad Idea
- What is a Flying Monkey?
- When Abusers Say They Want To Change
- Acceptance – A Vital Part of Healing
- Are You Tormented By Shame?
- Survivor Story – Spiritually Bruised and Battered
- One Church Standing Beside DV Survivors
- Playing your ex-abuser’s game to win in court
- Lundy Bancroft Discusses Kayden’s Law
- My Three Favorite Reads of 2023
- A Poem from a Survivor
- Do Christian Abuse Victims Have Rights?
- When Others Just Don’t Get It
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