Abuse

Returning to Our Bodies: A Man’s Journey
Here, we turn to a man’s experience of returning home to his body. Scott Gibson shares of his difficult choice to enter into the pain...
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Beautiful Scars: A Conversation with Lauran Bethell, Part Four
This week on the Allender Center Podcast, we bring you the conclusion of Beautiful Scars, Dr. Dan Allender’s four-part conversation with Lauran Bethell, Coordinator and...
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Beautiful Scars: A Conversation with Lauran Bethell, Part Three
This week on the Allender Center Podcast, Dr. Dan Allender continues a four-part conversation about beautiful scars with Lauran Bethell, Coordinator and Leadership Team Chair...
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Beautiful Scars: A Conversation with Lauran Bethell, Part Two
This week on the Allender Center Podcast, Dr. Dan Allender continues a four-part conversation with Lauran Bethell, Coordinator and Leadership Team Chair for the International...
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Beautiful Scars: A Conversation with Laurn Bethell, Part One
This week on the Allender Center Podcast, Dr. Dan Allender launches a four-part conversation with Lauran Bethell, Coordinator and Leadership Team Chair for the International...
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The Wrong Jeans
Our styles of relating are formed and informed by the messages we internalize through our stories of harm and abuse. Here, Laura Wade Shirley, Participant...
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Changing Realities of Sexual Abuse
Dr. Dan Allender reflects on his books The Wounded Heart and Healing the Wounded Heart and what has changed—and not changed—in the 25 years between...
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Sexual Addiction, Misogyny, and Donald Trump
Recently, Becky Allender wrote about how current events have inspired her to reach out to her younger self and reclaim a sense of bold pride...
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