Connections Between Spiritual and Sexual Abuse

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dan and Rachael begin to talk about the connections between sexual and spiritual abuse. Sexual abuse is also spiritual abuse, but not all spiritual abuse involves clear sexual abuse. They discuss the nuances, definitions, and processes of these two types of abuse and the intimate connection between our bodies as image-bearers of our Creator and the violation that occurs when someone commits abuse against another. We enter into this episode knowing the topics of spiritual and sexual abuse carry a certain kind of heaviness for many of our listeners. Particularly in this season, please tend kindly to your body and know that you can return to listen another time if this is not right for you today.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen.
0:10.6	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.8	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:21.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Today we enter a difficult conversation and we're going to be making a link between sexual abuse and spiritual abuse.
0:36.6	And for many who have endured sexual abuse and spiritual abuse. And for many who have endured sexual abuse to bring in the
0:42.6	category of spiritual abuse is not a common category. And for many who have been spiritually abused,
0:49.9	bringing in sexual abuse, it's not often done. So we're aware that we're going to be asking a great deal of you as a listener.
1:02.0	And for those of you who would say, I don't have any clear spiritual abuse or sexual abuse.
1:08.7	Let me just promise you, if you've got more than four friends,
1:13.4	you have good friends who have endured both spiritual abuse and sexual abuse. So as we step into
1:22.2	this, Rachel, we're in difficult water. We are.
1:27.8	And that's why it's going to be really important for anyone listening, ourselves included,
1:32.6	to just tend wisely and kindly to your body in this season.
1:36.8	So if this is material that you think, you know what,
1:39.6	is a little too close to home,
1:41.2	I think I'll come back and revisit this at another time,
1:44.8	then know that this is a podcast. We're going to record it. It will be there for you
1:49.7	when you're ready. And another thing I would just say is these are also very large, vast
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