Episode 229: A Victim-Centered Approach to Forgiveness After Trauma

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Forgiveness is so often weaponized against victims in the church. But what does the Bible really say about forgiveness, especially when trauma is involved? How can we value our own mental health but also follow Jesus? This is a fascinating and healing conversation with Susannah Griffith, author of Forgiveness After Trauma.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast, I'm Sheila Ray Gregoer, where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage and I have a great interview with you today that really impacted me personally about a wonderful book forgiveness Forgiveness After Trauma.
0:23.4	Before we get to that though, I want to thank our sponsor.
0:26.8	We have such an exciting sponsor for this podcast, The Kingdom Girls Bible from Zondervyn. It's an NIV Bible. It's supposedly for
0:36.0	girls like ages 8 to 12 or even teen girls but honestly we started talking about
0:41.0	this in our patron group and so many of the adult women have gotten it.
0:44.9	I can't tell you how excited I am about this Bible.
0:49.6	First of all, it is absolutely beautiful.
0:51.6	The illustrations are lovely, but the main thing about it is absolutely beautiful the illustrations are lovely but the main thing about it is that
0:55.6	whenever a woman is mentioned in the Bible there's a full page spread on her with
1:01.7	wonderfully racially sensitive diagrams and the stories of these
1:05.8	women. So girls when they read the Bible they're going to see themselves
1:09.2	included in it. Like just think about the power of that for your daughters. So check out the
1:15.6	kingdom girls Bible. The link is in the podcast notes where you can get it and see
1:19.6	more and see the beautiful illustrations. It's just incredible. And of course we also want to thank our patrons who do so much to support
1:27.8	the work they give as little as five dollars a month but they can give more
1:31.8	than that too and that lets us do what we're doing as well.
1:35.2	They get to join our amazing Facebook group and get unfiltered podcasts and more and so you can join as well.
1:41.5	That link is also in the podcast notes or if you want to give more to some of the big research things that we're doing and some of the big things that we're doing to get into peer review journals.
1:51.0	If you're in the US you can get tax deductible receipts through the Good Fruit Faith Initiative of the Bosco Foundation.
1:57.0	And so again, check that out. And now without further ado, I would like to get to this life-changing interview about what forgiveness really means.
2:05.3	Okay, I have an interview for you all today that is just going to be awesome because this book blew my mind.
2:12.3	So I have on with me
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