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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

The dream – and awakening 50 years later

  • Post published:June 15, 2025
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:June 15, 2025

For 50 years I didn’t know: My dream at age 3 profoundly explained and influenced the trauma in my life. Then, I began awakening to the key I’d held all along.

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Women, false responsibility and the church

  • Post published:January 11, 2025
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 28, 2025

A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church but often hidden in a fog. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.

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This “good Christian girl” is a woman now

  • Post published:August 1, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

I was a “good Christian girl” until well into middle age. Then, God led me where I did not want to go, to show me what I desperately needed to see.

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O say, can you see?

  • Post published:July 11, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

I did not dream that, in my lifetime, leaders in the US church would convince so many to embrace such skewed views of God, Christianity and country.

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Masters of misdirection

  • Post published:May 31, 2019
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
  • Post last modified:December 11, 2024

Masters of misdirection spend their lives using anyone, everyone, to get whatever they want. They do it so subtly, so skillfully, that the exploited ones usually do not know they’re being used.

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