Posts tagged rape
A Letter to My Former Self: On Starting Counseling + the Healing That's Ahead

April 2021 marked my four-year anniversary of starting counseling— a milestone I never imagined I’d hit, but I’m so grateful for. As I reflected with my counselor on all that the past four years have held, I was struck by truly how much has changed, and how much the Lord has done in myself and in my life. My counselor gave me the homework assignment of writing a letter to myself four years ago— so here it is.

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12 Helpful Books on Healing from Sexual Abuse

My prayer is that these books would be resources to aid those in their own journeys, whatever they might look like. For anyone who has gone through abuse of any kind, know that you are deeply loved, that you are not alone, and that God is with you, making all things new.

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Broken but Beloved: It's Time to Tell My Story

I’m silencing the voices of shame and kicking fear in the ass to declare that the darkness does not get to win and have power over me any longer. The time has come to tell my story.

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Christians & Consent: Powerful Responses to the Brock Turner Case

She opened with, “You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.” Reading that sentence was all it took for there to be chills on my body and tears in my eyes.

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