The Church Abused Coach: Christian Coaching, Break the Silence, Healing Tools

Nichole tells her story breaking her silence about all the trauma; finds her healing finally, and works in her ministry to encourage the masses to live victoriously! While in summer custody with her dad, she was involved in occult rituals at age 7, she knew the debilitating fear of NOT telling into adulthood. Join Nichole and I today as we learn how faithful our Creator is through the triumphant life of this child of God. FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy            [$15]

Usually our podcast hears from women who have experienced abuse at the hand of a man of God; today, we hear the story of a man of God who had to overcome sexual abuse from the age of 7. Seven. Listen to how God found Mark and not only healed him but gave him a new name: Victory. Love, Laurie Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

This short episode offers one tool of healing through an understanding of the imagery of water in the Bible. Close your eyes. Stand with your face toward heaven. Let the "water" cleanse your mind. Connect: [email protected] www.victoriousanyway.co Read to heal. Write to heal. Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth Married by Myself: Journal to Healing Happy Thoughts: a 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy

Resources for healing exist! Today I talk about 2 that I found outside of what we offer here at www.victoriousanyway.co Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

I need to vent.  Porn strikes again. Another teen girl is abused by her "Christian" stepdad. Barf.   Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

So the minister is having an affair. . . let's talk about cheating and adultery. Sigh....the betrayal. Do you know this pain? Let's look at it and pursue healing, dear one. Love, Laurie Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

Gaslighting. Have you heard this word? Join me in an explanation of gaslighting: my experience, definitions, origins, mental health recognition, and way to spot it. Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/gaslighting-word-of-year-2022-merriam-webster-dictionary https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/merriam-webster-word-year-2022-gaslighting-hope-2023-rcna58996 Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

So, pornography. . . it's everywhere and, perhaps, the favorite Christian sin. Its destruction is in the church and healing is available through Christ. I read from my memoir and journal in this episode. Break the Silence with me. Find the healing with me. Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected]  Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

  Thinking back now does it seem off? That moment. Those moments as a child, a vulnerable teenager when the pastor touched you. When he said you were so special. Looking back as an adult now with children of your own, it begins to dawn on you that something was wrong. You would never want the minister to touch your kid or talk to your kid that way. Does this sound familiar? Join me today as we face the truth and find the healing!  It is my honor to join you in healing from this type of abuse. God and I love you!!! Love, Laurie Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

13 countries and 23 states in 12 episodes! Hello out there, listeners! We are a community of those who have lived in silence about church abuse! We are breaking the silence worldwide. together we heal and live victoriously. Join us. Email [email protected] Let us know what you need us to broadcast, how we can help! Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

Survivor Story: Dawn was abused as a child, ran away, married an abuser....sound familiar? AND, she was a Christian. What a story she has to tell, a story of overcoming and hope. Need some of that?  This educator and life coach ministers to women in midlife. Her podcast is called The Daze of Our Lies on Spotify. If you email her at dawnjacksoncoaching.com she will send you a free download of her journal/devotional for women estranged from their children.  Isaiah 42:16. Do look that up! Be encourage, dear listener! You are not ALONE.... Love, Laurie Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  [$15]

Silencing the victims is a common tactic. It happens IN the church, too. Join guest, Dr. Jessica Gomez, as we talk about how "sin-leveling" works to keep the church abused quiet. Dr. Gomez is a professor of psychology who currently teaches the Psychology of Family and Domestic Violence among other classes and comes to this topic personally as a divorced Christian mother of two. We mention the following resources in this episode:  author, Rebecca Davis' Untwisting the Scriptures: Wolves, Hypocrisy, and Sin Leveling book. Julie Roys' podcast: The Roys Report. Patrick Weaver Ministries. Love, Laurie, B.S., M.A., Ed. Specialist Author-Coach-Teacher-Speaker Connect: FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me! www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  www.victoriousanyway.co Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199] Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   [$20] Write:  Married by Myself: Journal to Healing [$15]             Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy 

Red flags, today, friends. Listen. Be careful. Be wise. THIS is how we now live victoriously with eyes wide open. Listen to these tips. Share these with all women in your sphere of influence.  YOU matter. You matter to God. You matter to me. In Christ alone, Laurie Connect:  FB - Victorious, anyway www.victoriousanyway.co [email protected] Learn:  coaching sessions  Read:  Married by Myself, Married by Myself: Journal to Healing, Happy Thoughts: a 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  

When it hurts so badly, turn on that music. Doctrinally sound music that meets your sorrow where you are but doesn't leave you there. Friend, join me today to practice this technique!

It's a #MeToo, #ChurchToo movement moment today. I share my story of abuse from my memoir, Married by Myself. Christians, it is about time that the darkness comes into the light. There, exposed, there is hope for healing. 

Today's guest, Jennifer Hungerford, has known wretched sorrow and has a great method of healing to share with us. Join us as we talk about "bursts of joy" just in case, on this Christmas Day, your sorrow is nagging at your "peace on earth."

Trust issues? Cynical about church. Struggling with holiday cheer but find yourself reaching for your faith in Christ? Oh, my friend you are not alone. In today's episode, I walk with you through 2 healing techniques that first holiday when I was alone. . . so alone.  www.victoriousanyway.co Resources found there! I see you. I hear you. I believe you. 

Focus #1 of this podcast is Break. The. Silence. Today, I review only 2023 high profile cases of abuse within the church to prove that the victims of church abuse number in the thousands. You are not alone. I am not alone. Let's find each other and build a community of overcomers in Christ.

It's funny lady, Tess Scott, who I am talking with today about HOW to live victorious, anyway after all the pain. Tess is the author of Listen, Sister! Finding Hope in the Freakshow of Life. Just look at the book cover if you need a smile. We have all been there! Friends, laughter is good medicine (Proverbs 17:22 even says so)! Listen in. 

Published in 2023 "I Didn't Survive" by Naghmeh Abedini Panahi, the famous wife and advocate for the imprisoned Iranian pastor, Saeed, tells her survivor story! I share this today to tell you, sister, that you are not alone. That there is not only survival but the ability to live fully!  Buy this amazing story wherever books are sold, and get ready to be encouraged today!

Welcome Professor Jess who shares both her personal journey of abuse, misguided Christian counseling, and her professional understanding of domestic violence and pornography. Her story and statistics will resonant with your own and cause you to sit up and pay attention to the knowledge she has about the destruction of pornography! Jess offers us resources that are invaluable in these YouTube videos made for her students. Pornography and Domestic Abuse with Dr. J

Listen today for pillar #3 here at The Church Abused Coach: Live Victorious, Anyway. Laurie talks about HOW. How on earth after devastating abuse, does a person live victoriously?   Girl, grab a favorite drink, your journal, and a pretty pen! Let’s begin the healing. Connect: www.victoriousanyway.co Connect: [email protected] Learn:  Grab a set of FOUR coaching sessions for $199 at www.victoriousanyway.co Learn:  Join a Free Write to Heal Retreat online spot [Nov. 14-17] [email protected] Resource links: www.victoriousanyway.co

In this episode we explore the 2nd pillar of this podcast: Find the Healing. Use writing to not only process your abuse but bring healing to your mind Use the true north nature of the Bible to train your mind to focus on truth rather than the noise Use music via both the lyrics and the melodies to promote healing As one who survived and thrived, it is my honor to guide you out of the silence to a life lived victoriously anyway. Girl, grab a favorite drink, your journal, and a pretty pen! Let’s begin the healing. Connect: www.victoriousanyway.co Connect: [email protected] Learn:  Grab some coaching sessions at www.victoriousanyway.co Learn:  Join a Free Write to Heal Retreat online spot [Nov. 14-17] [email protected] Resource links: www.victoriousanyway.co

Are you tired of the secret? Carrying it unresolved, unhealed into every relationship on earth? Are you so ready to be “normal” like people think you are? Has your pain as a victim of abuse honestly affected your relationship with Christ, and you are trying so hard to hold on because your faith means everything to you?   I am Laurie Sullivan, and I am a coach for women of all ages abused by the church. This abuse could be sexual, emotional, social, spiritual, or physical; you were hurt by the place that should have been safe. You were hurt by the person who should have been protecting you and leading you in faith to a strong and solid relationship with God. In this podcast, I will coach you to Use writing to not only process your abuse but bring healing to your mind Use the true north nature of the Bible to train your mind to focus on truth rather than the noise Use music via both the lyrics and the melodies to promote healing   As one who survived and thrived, it is my honor to guide you out of the silence to a life lived victoriously. Anyway. Eh? Friend, grab a favorite drink, your journal, and a pretty pen! Let’s begin the healing. Connect: www.victoriousanyway.co Connect: [email protected] Learn:  Grab some coaching sessions at www.victoriousanyway.co Learn:  Join a Free Write to Heal Retreat online spot [Nov. 14-17] [email protected] Resource links: www.victoriousanyway.co

This survivor wants to give you VOICE, promote your healing, and lead you to HOPE!