by Natalie Hoffman | Apr 16, 2021 | Advocacy, Articles, Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Healing from Spiritual Abuse, Learning, Waking Up
Back when I was getting out of my own abusive marriage, I binge-watched Patrick Doyle on the Dove YouTube channel (no longer available). There was one that was particularly helpful in explaining the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation called How...
by Natalie Hoffman | Apr 13, 2021 | Articles, Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Learning, Popular Posts, Waking Up
I wrote this analogy several years ago in one of my bazillions of efforts over the years to get my beloved religious community to recognize what was happening in my home and help my family. It didn’t work. They just threw more gasoline on the fire and made jokes...
by Natalie Hoffman | Apr 6, 2021 | Articles, Emotional Abuse, Healing from Spiritual Abuse, Learning, Waking Up
A reader recently wrote the following question: I am struggling greatly and most of the help and support I am reading automatically assumes one is devout Christian who would not not be deeply questioning the role of God in your experience as an abuse...
by Natalie Hoffman | Mar 9, 2021 | Articles, Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Grieving, Learning, Lessons from the Ladder, Popular Posts, Survivor Identity
Imagine that your destructive relationship is a hot, burning pit. It’s dark down there. You can’t breathe down there. It hurts down there. You’re stuck down there. It’s relationship HELL down there. You might be sitting there thinking you need to be rescued. You’ve...
by Natalie Hoffman | Mar 5, 2021 | Articles, Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Learning, Waking Up
Have you figured it out yet? Have you come to a place where you can look at the truth straight up and acknowledge that you’ve been systematically abused over the course of many years? Do you now see how emotional abuse IS physical abuse? How it breaks down your...
by Natalie Hoffman | Jan 7, 2021 | Articles, Emotional Abuse
Where there are lies, there is evil. When I think of evil, I think of Sauron, Hannibal Lecter, and Emperor Palpatine. I don’t think of a Sunday School teacher at church. But maybe I should. A few years ago I read the book, People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck. I...
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