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. You may struggle with fear, shame, painful memories, or difficult relationships without fully understanding why. Yet your past does not have to determine your future.
I know this journey because I have walked it, and I want you to know that you are not alone.
Whether you are searching for answers, taking your first steps toward healing, or growing deeper in your faith, I pray you find the understanding, hope, and encouragement you need here.
Understanding Forgiveness: How It Helps You Move Forward In Life
Forgiveness for those who have wronged you in the past is essential to your emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being and allows you to move forward in life. I forgive you; it is easy to say but immensely more challenging to do. – To stop blaming and grant forgiveness. – To let go of anger, bitterness, and grudges. Problems originating in the past “unknowingly” often force…
Helpful Ways to Overcome Forgiveness And Reconciliation
As flawed humans, we avoid forgiveness and reconciliation like the plague. We are reluctant to forgive offenders of wrongdoing and fear admitting a bad mistake, poor decisions, or judgment. Mainly when your choices cause others pain and anguish. Their judgment can be harsh and opinions downright demoralizing. Their reaction can lower your spirits and leave you in a more downtrodden and oppressed state.
Lost in Darkness a Poem
Lost in Darkness is a Poem by L.M. Carleton Walking in darkness, lost and confused. Aimless drifting, chaotic, and turbulent. Blinded sight, choosing moral wrong.Living conditions, difficult and bleak. Broken spirit violated and disregarded. Heartsick, suffering, and desperate.
Life is Like a Facebook Feed a Poem
Life is Like a Facebook Feed: a Poem by L.M. Carleton When life leaves you feeling like a Facebook feed.Always erratic and changing direction.
As a Child Sees a Poem
As a Child Sees – a poem by L.M. Carleton I asked, “Lord, what is your will for me?” He told me, “See as a child sees.” If I could see as a child sees, How would the world look to me?
About
I have lived through childhood abuse and domestic violence, and I write about the wisdom that can emerge through the journey of healing—what we can understand, reclaim, and ultimately transform from what we have survived.
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Childhood abuse can leave wounds that shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Our past, however, does not have to determine our future.
Through personal stories, faith-filled encouragement, practical insights, and honest reflection, Abuse Journal offers hope for adult survivors seeking healing and freedom.
More than a memoir, The Secret Darkness invites every survivor who wonders if healing is possible. It is a story of resilience, redemption, and the life-changing hope that your past does not have to define your future—and that freedom can be found beyond yesterday’s shadows.
L.M. CARLETON
Rescued by Grace