Healing from Spiritual Abuse
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our discussion about spiritual abuse, this week we’re looking at its impacts and how we can begin to move towards healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Spiritual abuse is one of the most insidious and pervasive forms of abuse in our culture. |
| 0:07.0 | Whether subtle or obvious, spiritual abuse is a form of trauma that undermines your relationship with yourself and with God. |
| 0:14.0 | How do we begin to unravel the harm caused by spiritual abuse, reclaim our spirituality, and regain healthy relationships with ourselves, |
| 0:22.0 | others, and God. Hi, I'm Rachel Clinton Chen, a trauma specialist and co-host of the |
| 0:28.2 | Allender Center podcast. Last year, I led an online seminar called Confronting Spiritual Abuse. |
| 0:34.4 | We've had so many requests to make this content available again, so for a limited |
| 0:38.7 | time, you can access the recording from this seminar. Enrollment is open through June 30th, |
| 0:44.0 | 2022, and you'll have access to the material for the rest of the calendar year to work through |
| 0:49.1 | at your own pace. In confronting spiritual abuse, you'll spend time understanding spiritual abuse in context, the systems, processes, and people who perpetrate it. |
| 0:59.0 | You'll also learn to identify and name the abuse and learn ways in which you can start to heal. |
| 1:04.0 | We believe that healing is possible. By doing this work, you can begin to reclaim spiritual beliefs and practices and reconnect with God and others in a deeper way. |
| 1:14.7 | Visit the Allender Center.org slash online dash courses to enroll in confronting spiritual abuse today. |
| 1:31.2 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 1:32.9 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 1:34.6 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen. |
| 1:38.9 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 1:41.2 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 1:42.8 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:44.6 | Let's get this conversation started. Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. |
| 1:59.1 | Well, Dan, we are back today to talk a little bit more about spiritual abuse. |
| 2:02.1 | And I think, you know, I'm just aware, I've been thinking a lot about our last conversation that we had. And I know today we're going to jump in a little |
| 2:07.5 | bit more to some of the impact of spiritual abuse and maybe even begin to think through what |
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