Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Helping survivors understand abuse, begin healing, and find lasting hope through biblical wisdom and God’s grace.
Childhood abuse can leave wounds that follow us long after childhood ends. Fear, shame, and painful memories often shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Yet our past does not have to determine our future.
I know this journey because I have walked it myself.
Abuse Journal is a faith-based resource created to help adult survivors of childhood abuse and domestic violence understand abuse, begin healing, and discover lasting hope through God’s grace.
Whether you are searching for answers, taking your first steps toward healing, or growing deeper in your faith, I hope you find encouragement, wisdom, and hope here.
How to Overcome Living in Fear
Do you want to stop living in fear? Fear is a powerful, gripping feeling of anxiety or apprehension about a situation or event. It’s an emotional reaction to pain, danger, and the consequences of sin. Abuse victims who live in fear are paralyzed and trapped in hopeless relationships. The desire to fight or flee diminishes as fear attacks their minds. Many don’t know how to…
How To Overcome The Abuse Victim Identity
Saying goodbye in an open letter using self-reflective writing helps you acknowledge the ill-treatment endured, process the consequences, and overcome the abuse victim identity. This is my open goodbye letter. Dear Abuse Victim, Unfortunately, you suffered ill-treatment as a child and grew up in a dysfunctional family without the parental and spiritual guidance to live an abundant life. The father who was supposed to provide…
Open Letter to Parents
I wrote this sincere “Open Letter to Parents” back in 2014. I was putting the broken pieces (called life) back together at the time. I was healing emotionally from child abuse and domestic violence and spiritually from years of living in darkness with fear. Dear Parents, I’m mad as Hell at you! The life you prepared me for was filled with turmoil, anguish, and pain. It…
A True Story About Hiding in Fear from God
This is a true story about a young boy who jumped down at a Christmas play and hid in fear from God underneath the Church Pew. A cherished memory is the year we attended a Christmas play at the Methodist church in town. My son was around six years old, and his grandparents and I took him to see a performance about the birth of Jesus.…