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How to Reconnect with Your Body if You’re an Abuse Survivor (or Trauma Survivor)

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 4, 2019 | Abuse

When you’re abused, a common defense mechanism is dissociation–when you mentally “flee” your body and try to be anywhere but here. That helps you live through trauma. But it also creates a whole heap of problems down the road when you’re...

And…This is Why Abuse Flourishes. Can We Provoke Someone to Abuse?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2018 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict

When there’s abuse in marriage, are both parties to blame? Or is just the abuser to blame?I honestly wish I didn’t have to ask that question, but last week a commenter left this comment on my post about emotionally destructive marriages: I believe almost...

Homeschoolers: We Need to Police Our Own

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2017 | Abuse

There is a dark side of homeschooling where abuse can flourish, and I want to talk about that today. But first, a bit of background: I homeschooled both of my daughters right through, up to university (Rebecca completed first year university online before she went to...

A Letter to the Woman with a Controlling Husband

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2016 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Are you married to a controlling husband? I wrote a big post recently about how too often our Christian culture promotes a version of church and marriage that makes women powerless–and that this inevitably leads to abuse. Not that EVERY woman will be abused, but...