Making Distinctions after the Trauma of Child Sexual Abuse

First published in Orthodoxy in Dialogue, Feb 4, 2018

We unlearn what abusers teach, using lies to groom us and authority to confuse us enough to believe the lies. We learn that all surrender is not annihilation and that, unlike the abuser who manipulates and destroys free choice, the Lord will permit us to choose whether to take the next step in healing over and over and over again.

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