Posted on October 19, 2017
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I’ll be honest. I miss my old Therapist. Jack the FNG (“friendly” New Guy) is so different. He’s a much younger PhD. He feels like a grad student. Yeah. That young. He’s growing a beard now. He’s really tall. Fit. And very subdued. In… Continue Reading “The FNG Asks about Sex”
Category: Healing, personal development, sex, therapy, traumaTags: a new therapist, identity work and trauma, sexual healing after sexual abuse, sexuality, therapeutic process, therapy, trauma recovery
Posted on August 4, 2015
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It finally happened. Therapy finally sucked. I cried. It was hard. This is when you know that you are going to do some real work. This is why you are there. I was given homework last week. I was to reflect on why receiving… Continue Reading “Therapy Tuesday: A Case Study in Chasing Trauma”
Posted on April 8, 2015
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Therapy Tuesday has come and gone. It was my longest session yet. Almost a full two hours. I don’t know why he lets them go on for so long. I drank so much water during the session that thoughts of Niagara Falls started rushing… Continue Reading “Therapy Homework: Disgust and Vulnerability”
Category: abuse in families, Healing, marriage, Sexual Abuse, therapyTags: abusive behavior in relationships, anxiety, EMDR, mindfulness, sex in marriage, sexless marriage, sexual abuse, sexual healing after sexual abuse, therapy
Posted on January 27, 2015
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I want to recommend a book. I also want to be careful in how I go about recommending it. I wrote at least a year ago that I questioned how the Church at large would be able to handle a hypothetical influx of emancipated… Continue Reading “A Sea Change”
Category: Christianity, Community, Evangelical church, God, Healing, human trafficking, Jesus, Judaism, sex, sex trade, Sexual Abuse, Women's IssuesTags: central message of Christianity vs. Christian culture, Christian culture, Christianity and domestic violence statistics, human trafficking, sex, sexual healing after sexual abuse, sexuality and Christian culture
Posted on April 11, 2014
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Originally posted on Kindness Blog:
‘puggitt’ wrote: “This was in a public restroom I saw. I went in a few weeks earlier & at the time, there was only the first woman’s question on the door. The survivor’s anonymous yet public search for help…
Posted on July 10, 2013
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I’ve been thinking about sex. I have a lot of questions about sex. I’ll explain. The cause du jour right now in both sacred and secular circles is human trafficking. Celebrities from both spheres are jumping on the sexual slavery bandwagon, waving “Stop Slavery”… Continue Reading “The Second Emancipation Proclamation”
Category: Christianity, Evangelical church, Healing, human trafficking, PTSD, sex, sex trade, Sexual AbuseTags: American Christian culture and sexuality, human trafficking, human trafficking and PTSD, judgment in the church, sex, sexual abuse, sexual healing after sexual abuse, sexual slavery, the church and unwillingness to discuss sexuality, the church experience