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.
Facing the Hidden Wounds of Abuse
Revised on July 28, 2026 We all carry memories we’d rather keep hidden. They may be painful experiences, broken relationships, abuse, loss, or mistakes we wish we could erase. Whatever they are, those hidden places often shape how we think, the choices we make, and the direction of our lives. For years, I carried those hidden wounds in what I called my “skeleton closet.”
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.