What Keeps Us From Dealing With Sexual Abuse?

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re sifting through some of the "debris" that can hinder people from moving into the healing process in the wake of sexual abuse.

Dan and Rachael talk about some of the questions that can keep people feeling stuck and silent: What if I don’t remember everything? What if my healing journey affects my loved ones? Shouldn’t I just forgive and move on? Can I wait until life isn’t so busy? What if facing this feels overwhelming?

By acknowledging these barriers, you can start to see a way through. Next week, we’ll discuss what’s needed to begin the healing journey from past abuse.

Please note that this episode contains discussions of sexual abuse and childhood sexual abuse, and may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Listener Resources:

Explore more podcast episodes including: "The Cost of Engaging Stories of Sexual Abuse," "Connections Between Spiritual and Sexual Abuse," and "Bearing Witness to Stories of Sexual Abuse and Racial Trauma."
Read: Healing the Wounded Heart by Dr. Dan Allender
Sign up for the Healing the Wounded Heart Online Course from the Allender Center

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:29.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, we're going to return to a topic that obviously involves a great deal of struggle and heartache.
0:37.4	We're going to talk about sexual abuse.
0:39.4	And so I don't think we often offer sort of that notion of a trigger warning, but I think it's an advisable thing. I've heard a number of people talk about listening to the podcast and their children listening.
0:57.1	Most of the time, I think that's great.
0:58.8	It's just one of those moments.
1:00.0	I want to let listeners know we're going to step in to some of the issues that we think need to be articulated.
1:08.3	And it's probably best to know, okay, do I want my son or daughter in the backseat to be listening to this?
1:17.9	Probably not. So, given that, let me just underscore that we've talked about abuse before. And I think it's important in some ways, even though it won't
1:28.3	be the primary topic, what I want to address is how do we engage the debris that keeps us from
1:37.1	actually entering into the conversation? All this got triggered for me when I was in a church setting, a conversation that occurred,
1:49.6	and a person said, oh, you've written on sexual abuse.
1:53.6	Is that right?
1:54.6	And I'm like, yeah, have?
1:57.0	And she said, almost the next sentence.
1:59.7	I just, I, you know, I have something like that in my life,
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