A Closer Look at Spiritual Abuse: Interview with Dan Koch [283]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Joining me for today’s fascinating episode is Dan Koch, podcaster and spiritual abuse researcher. Dan has created an incredible tool called the Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale, and he breaks it down for us as we talk about spiritual abuse and the heavy impact it has on people’s lives.

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Related Resources:

Check out Dan’s Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale. Also mentioned in today’s podcast episode was Dr. Keller’s Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire.
Connect with Dan on his website as well as Instagram.
Listen to Dan’s podcast, You Have Permission, and especially Episodes 10 and 123.
Grab your copy of one of my favorite books, Faith Beyond Doubt.
My newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote another book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
Flying Free is my online membership program designed for Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip and support you through this program.
Flying Higher is my online membership program for divorced Christian women. Come rebuild your life after divorce with women just like you.

Dan Koch is a licensed therapist in the state of Washington, the host of the You Have Permission Podcast and a spiritual abuse researcher who has developed the Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale, currently in use by religious trauma clinicians around the world.

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0:00.0	Hey Podcast Club Members, Our next live meet-up is on Saturday, July 13th at 11 o'clock
0:08.6	AM Central Time. We are going to be hanging out live with Susanna Griffith, author of forgiveness after trauma.
0:16.7	A Trauma informed book that explores what the Bible says and doesn't say about the biblical
0:22.2	call to forgive.
0:23.8	You can hear Susanna's recent interview with me
0:26.0	on episode 281 of the Flying Free Podcast,
0:29.9	and then come hang out with us on July 13th.
0:32.5	You can ask her questions, and we will talk about this tricky subject.
0:36.4	It's tricky, especially for women
0:38.8	who have been emotionally and spiritually abused
0:41.2	by their husbands and sometimes their faith communities. Now, if you're and of the cost of producing the Flying Free Podcast by chipping in five dollars a month go to
0:55.6	flying free podcast club.com to sign up. Podcast club members also have access to their very own
1:02.1	private podcast where we post
1:04.0	replays of all our live meetups as a thank you for supporting the Flying Free
1:08.5	podcast. Again just head over to Flying Free Podcast Club.com to join us. And if you're a member of
1:14.9	flying free or flying higher, you're invited to any of our podcast club meetups for
1:19.5	free. Just hit the reply button on your next Monday morning resource email to get set up. Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.
1:35.0	And you're listening to the Flying Free Now
1:38.0	and you're listening to the Flying Free Podcast,
1:41.0	a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and
1:45.5	healing from hidden emotional and spiritual abuse.
1:50.3	Welcome to episode 283 of the Flying Free Podcast.
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