Religious / Spiritual Abuse Articles
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advan...
Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness
Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness
Author: Barbara Orlowski
Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free from Bad Church Experience
Are you a victim of spiritual abuse? Are you discouraged from questioning the decisions or teachings church leaders make? If you do little or no volunteer work for the church, do you feel like a se...
Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church
Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when used in unhealthy ways. Speaking into current #MeToo and #ChurchToo conversations, this book shows ...
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.
It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised ...
Overcoming Religious Abuse Community with Connie A Baker MA LPC
'Members only' Facebook group for those who have suffered abuse from a religious or spiritual community.
with author Connie Baker
Wolves Guarding the Lambs – Interaction International
A personal story of abuse at boarding school and how God is using that experience to fuel a passion to help children through Compassion International.
by Wess Stafford
Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse
This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. A...
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches? We've seen the news stories and heard the rumors. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcissistic church leader.But what is narcissism, reall...
Four Tools of Spiritual Manipulators
I grew up in a very conservative subculture of an already conservative homeschool culture, in a pretty conservative stream of the Christian faith. Though I learned much from these ex...
Traumatized by Religious Abuse: Courage, Hope and Freedom for Survivors
‘Traumatized by Religious Abuse: Courage, Hope and Freedom for Survivors’ is a comprehensive resource for those who have experienced religious abuse, be it psychological, verbal, sexual or financia...
Recovering from Churches That Abuse
This book is a healing balm for those who have been spiritually abused. This excellent SHORT book brings home poignantly the plight of the vulnerable spirit who is searching for answers in a religi...