Healing From Spiritual Abuse

- - - Recovery After Exiting a Spiritually Abusive Group
      Covers thought reform, manipulation, coercion, deception, peer pressure, guilt, fear, phobias and threat tactics used by the group leader.
    - From Victim to Survivor (Take Back the Power)
      Excellent testimony by founder of ESN; includes “Steps to Recovery and Success.”
    - Why Did God Allow Me to Go in an Abusive Group?
    - Getting the Group Out of Us
    - Where Do the Feelings Go?
      Feelings from hurtful stimulus were not permitted to be expressed; includes: “How Do I Go About Writing and What Do I Write About?”
    - Common Emotional Difficulties After Leaving a High Demand Group
    - Common Spiritual Difficulties After Exiting A High Demand Group
    - Prayers For Freedom From Spiritual Strongholds
      These prayers are very effective in gaining deliverance from many strongholds and oppression due to involvement in any harmful cult or occult practices.
    - Personal Writings
      Writings by Exiters
    - Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    - Surviving
      Written for those who have suffered extreme abuse and who are having a difficult time recovering.
    - How to Walk Yourself Through a Panic Attack
    - Cognitive Behavioral Focusing for Exiters (An Approach to Handling Depression, Anxiety, Fear & Guilt)
    - Recovery Issues and What to Expect
    - How Do People Get Out of Religious Cults?
      Includes Stages in Leaving.
    - Poems / Free Verse/ Comfort in Words of Hymns
      Comfort and peace through poems and free verse (a few written by an exiter)
    - An End to Guilt
      Excellent message that focuses on the unconditional love of God and gives a clear understanding of grace.
    - Because God Loves Me
      How does the true God of love see His children?
    - Comforting Words About the True God of Love
      True statements that show how the true God of love really sees His children.
    - How Do I Receive Eternal Life?
    - The Love of God
      Do you know you cannot keep God from loving you?
    - My Position in Christ
      Accepted and secure forever.
    - God’s Love in My Life Through Angels and Miracles
      Seven amazing true stories in member’s lives.
    - Comfort for Those Who are Sorrowing
      Written long ago but can be a source of comfort for those who are experiencing grief or sorrow. (4 articles)
    - Exiters Tell What Has Helped Them to Heal From Armstrongism
    - Exiters Tell What Has Helped Them on Exit Support Network’s Site
    - Amazing Words That Have Been Said to Exiters (What Never to Say to Someone Who Has Been Deceived by an Abusive Group)
    - Are We “Out of Fellowship” With God if We Don’t Attend a Church?
    - Where is the True Church?
    - Why Do So Many Exiters Turn to Atheism?
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