Description Seven years after separating from my abuser, a nervous breakdown revealed the reality that time alone was not going to heal the horrors of abuse.
She is the collaborating author for Tear Down This Wall of Silence: Dealing with Sexual Abuse in Our Churches (with Dale Ingraham) and Unholy Charade: Unmasking the Domestic Abuser in.
Rebecca Davis is a writer and editor with a passion to help the oppressed.
About the Author LTC (R) Sue Parisher served twenty-one honorable years on active duty, living a double life of capability and accomplishment in the service while enduring brutality and abusiveness in her twenty-year oppressive marriage.
It\'s a calmness and peace I never thought possible.
with the emotional Abuse removed from my mind, God\'s grace and love have taken over.
It means that the thoughts in my head are mine and mine only.
It means I am open to making decisions, building trusting relationships again, and eventually feeling love again.
In order to become a true survivor, knowing that the thoughts in my head were mine, I had to: Identify the deeply rooted Lies of my abuser that I believed were true Extract the Lies Lean on God\'s strength to defeat the Lies and replace them with His word Acknowledge that the trauma experienced from the Abuse left physical and emotional scars that needed to be furthered explored Eleven years later, being a Domestic violence survivor means being free and open to living again.
In fact, I felt like a remotely-controlled, confused puppet still shaken by residual influences in my mind.
I didn\'t feel like a Domestic violence survivor just because I was no longer with my abuser.
As I started putting my shattered life back together after being separated from my abuser, I still felt his compelling control shaping my every thought and action.
It surely didn\'t release me from the grip of his brainwashing control and the innate power he had over me.
Being separated from my abusive husband didn\'t make me a Domestic violence survivor.
Description Seven years after separating from my abuser, a nervous breakdown revealed the reality that time alone was not going to heal the horrors of abuse
