For faith leaders and other supporters of adult survivors of child sexual abuse
For our final post in this series, let’s talk about patience with God. As supporters, there are many prayers that we’re waiting to have answered. Many changes that need to be made. And we often have a mental schedule for all that. We have expectations that God will work on our schedules. We make plans…
In other posts, we’ve mentioned the importance of being sincere and honest with survivors. With the matter of patience, you can’t “fake it till you make it.” If you’re pretending to be patient but are actually highly irritated and frustrated with a survivor, we will often pick up on your insincerity. It will be very…
Please remember that survivors have been carrying the weight, pain, and shame of trauma for decades, and we can’t drop all of that load overnight. We generally know what changes we need to make so it won’t usually help to have other people saying “You really need to…” or “You ought to…” or even the…
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