Feeling hungry for love and devalued after years of spiritual abuse and female degredation, I began a search for validation. I desired to be loved and accepted for who I was. I wanted to be valued, appreciated; not just tolerated, accused, and used. Within the religious circles I was exposed to, there was a lot of contempt and hostility toward women. I could not even depend on self-proclaimed men of God to love and respect […]
I have acknowledged a prior distorted sense of who I was concerning my identity and purpose as a woman, and my misunderstanding of God, due to false religious teachings. I will elaborate more on that in this post. Teachings I heard insinuated that a woman was never really even meant to be. Implication was that the woman was created only as an afterthought when God had a light bulb moment, and realized that His wonderful […]
I was quite messed up spiritually in my younger years. False doctrine and spiritual abuse, detrimental ideology, wrong conditioning, ignorance, and the hypocrisy that plagues society has significantly and uniquely affected many women. In fact, I am one of those women. One reason spiritual abuse is so damaging is that it tends to completely distort someone’s understanding of who they are, and who God really is. This can cause someone to feel inferior and alienated […]