The Single Mom Survival Kit 5: Memories
Do you enjoy looking at old photos and ‘remembering when’? Do you sit with friends and remember “the good ‘ol days”? It has been said that, ‘A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.’ Memories touch our hearts whether they are painful or give us pleasure. I think all of us have both kinds... >Read More
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Single Mom Survival Kit 3: The Monster Called FEAR
Is there something wrong with me? Will anyone ever love me again? Have you caught yourself asking these questions? Have you worried about how you’re going to figure out finances and look after the home while juggling your children’s lives? If so, you are not alone. When I first became a single Mom I asked all these questions too.
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Why Do I Struggle with Sexual Intimacy?
There’s another way your abuse could be impacting you and that’s in your enjoyment and desire for sex with your spouse. In addition to the ways sexual abuse damages our bodies, spirits and emotions, sexual abuse also damages our view of sex. When we’ve been used for others’ sexual pleasure the experience becomes associated with a negative...... >Read More
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Past Abuse: Why do I feel this way?
Perhaps you’ve been struggling for years with feelings that you can’t understand or explain. Here are some of the ways sexual abuse affects a child, which can follow into adulthood. Maybe you’ll see some of yourself in the list below:
Self-blame: When children experience trauma, their inherent egocentrism leads them to believe that they...... >Read More
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How Do I Know if I’ve Been Sexually Abused?
Sexual abuse has a broader definition than we may assume. There are four types of sexual abuse: verbal, visual, physical and psychological.
Verbal sexual abuse includes sexual threats, sexual comments about your body, lewd or suggestive comments and inappropriate sexual conversations with children.
Visual sexual abuse includes exposure to pornographic,...... >Read More
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Childhood Sexual Abuse: How the past affects the present
Rough estimates put one in three girls and one in six boys in the US at risk for being sexually abused. But exact figures are hard to assess because most children delay reporting their abuse until later in adulthood or never report it at all. Many of the women I’ve led through healing were not believed when they did... >Read More
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When You Can't, God Can
Can we pray for you today?
“With God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
When we are going through a trial it's hard to imagine how things will get better. God wants us to depend on Him in every trial we face. When we can't, God can. Because God loves us as dearly loved children, He is willing and able to... >Read More
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