How Do You Break the Cycle of Emotional and Spiritual Abuse? [157]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

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

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hit it with a hammer. Done. If only it were that easy. In reality, the cycle of emotional and spiritual abuse feels like a freight train rushing down the tracks of your everyday. An unstoppable force. And if you stand in its way, you’ll be run down. A sad little pancake beholden to the destructive patterns you’ve existed in since…who knows when. My dear. You forgot about two things. First: You can’t stop that train. Second: You don’t need to stop that train to heal and be free and come into your power. Remember the handle thingy on the side of the tracks, controlling the railroad switch? Yup. Start there. In this episode: - A heart-warming tale of what the Flying Free podcast is accomplishing in the lives of survivors - How many nickels I theoretically have and why (very important) - What love has to do with breaking cycles (I’ve got a great, but super old, example) - The reason giraffes refuse to have short necks (a purely scientific explanation) - Why authentic growth is the opposite of abusive control Listen or download the transcript at flyingfreenow.com/157 FREE: I'll send you the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. Just hop on my mailing list at flyingfreesisterhood.com/free-download. (I will NEVER spam you or sell your information.) Desperate for real help and safe people who understand what you're going through? Find out about my online education and support program for women of faith at joinflyingfree.com And, if you are an already divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, have amazing relationships, build a business or career, or even find a good man - check out joinflyinghigher.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free
0:10.2	podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.6	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:21.6	Welcome to episode 157 of the Flying Free Podcast. Thank you so much for being a
0:29.7	listener. Some of you have been listening to this podcast from the very beginning.
0:34.0	That's been three years, over three years now.
0:37.0	And some of you started listening recently, but maybe you've been binge listening and catching up, which I think is so awesome.
0:45.2	I know it's because this resource has been helping you unhook from not only abusive thinking,
0:52.2	but also and even more importantly, an abusive God made in the
0:57.9	image of the men and women who are relentlessly abusing you both emotionally and spiritually.
1:05.0	I think that's the thing that motivates me the most
1:09.0	is pulling back the curtain on that demi-god
1:12.0	because as long as we're worshiping at that altar, we are unable
1:16.4	to see and experience the love of the creator of the universe who's nothing like that little God.
1:24.4	One of our recent listeners put it this way in her review on Apple Podcasts.
1:29.0	I just listened to the two-part series on Changing Your Role, this would be episodes 146 and 147.
1:37.3	It's amazing how well it explained my childhood growing up in a legalistic church. I am thankful because this has helped me grit it
1:45.1	all out in my mind so that I don't associate the abuse I experienced as coming
1:50.2	from God. It came from a narcissist misrepresenting Christ. Thank you for this
1:57.1	wonderful explanation. How do you feel about this podcast and our mission to set women free from a false
2:06.9	guide so they can get to know their Creator who views them with love and honor
2:12.4	so they can then worship that creator with a whole heart
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