When life is chaotic and out of control, we have a tendency to hold on to areas of our life that are detrimental to our well-being. We hold onto: LABELS Labels become badges of negativity: ugly, fat, dumb, too sensitive,…
Category: Effects of Abuse
What’s in Your Grip?
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: effects of abuse, Self-esteem, shame, Victims
Lord, Are You Still There?
With her dreams in her hand and hope for the future, Pat walked down the long aisle of her church to marry a Christian man who was well liked. As she gazed into his eyes, a moment of doubt flashed…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Domestic Violence, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Self-esteem, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Effects of domestic violence, Freedom, God's love, Safe Place
What Color is Your Elephant?
Wherever I go, I see evidence of God’s most beautiful and unique design in creation in the women I meet. With just words, each woman was designed by God. Actually if you think about it, God was and still is…
Take Heart, Daughter!
20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Self-esteem, Shame Tagged with: effects of abuse, faith, healing, shame
Responding Wisely to a FOOL
After identifying our Fool, we may ask ourselves “Now What!” We can once again turn back to the wisdom of scripture to learn how to respond while heading its warning. Proverbs 24:25: “Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Domestic Violence, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Abuser, FOOL, Scripture
A Plea to Pastors
Dear Pastor, Since 1995, FOCUS Ministries, Inc. has been reaching out to women who are struggling in abusive and dysfunctional relationships. Most of them belong to churches like yours. They sit in the pews on Sunday morning alongside their abusive…
Heart Piercing Wounds
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 19-20 NIV All of us have from time to time said things…
A Time of Testing
When someone has sinned against us, we must choose our response carefully. We may hear various voices from church leadership claiming to know what we should do. Forgive and forget are often the words they choose to say followed by…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Church Response, Domestic Violence, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Reconciliation, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Reconciliation
Painfully Alone
My 4 year old cries and cries and tells me to call someone to take us away because Daddy’s being mean again. He doesn’t hurt anybody physically but can make an otherwise wonderful day turn into a nightmare in a…
Lies, Abuse, and Healing
My problem is that, it’s one thing to work at recovering from the years of abuse, but another to see people that look as though they hate me. I want to explain to all of them that I was abused,…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Self-esteem, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Self-esteem
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