Posts Tagged ‘Spiritual Abuse’
Reclaim Spiritually
By: Ayah Issa So, you’ve recognized you’ve gone through spiritual abuse, did what you could to stop it, did what you could to alter your Spirituality, but Spirituality has become triggering. Every time you hear a sheikh screaming in the microphone about hell, you feel it. Every time you want to pray, you sit wondering…
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Every couple of months, a woman comes out to speak against her abuser (usually a spiritual advisor). We all then watch our Instagrams and sometimes the news as we hear of the abuses she endured, and we watch the way people react to her. There is currently another story that has popped up in my circles, and the cycle of reactions has started…
Read MoreSupporting Victims of Spiritual Abuse
Knowing how best to advocate and work with clients who have been subjected to harassment and abuse can be a weighty and difficult task. It may seem even harder when those responsible for the abuse are trusted spiritual or religious authority figures whom our clients look to for guidance and support. When a client walks into our office with stories of such abuse, or we suspect that our client may be the victim of such abuse, there are several things we should keep in mind as we support them.
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