EP 24 | Survivor Story-Nichole Henson. Abuse.Neglect.Witchcraft.Divorce.Crippling Depression. Yet GOD.

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.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Coaching:</em>  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Read:  Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Write: </em> <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy            </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 23| Survivor Story with Mark Sowersby author of Forgiving the Nightmare

<p style="font-weight: 400;">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.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Love, Laurie</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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Find the Healing From Abuse from the Man of God

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.</p> Connect: <a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> Read to heal. Write to heal.</p> <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth</em></p> <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing</em></p> <em>Happy Thoughts: a 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy</em></p>

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EP 21| Finding Resources for Healing from #ChurchToo Abuse

Resources for healing exist! Today I talk about 2 that I found outside of what we offer here at <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 20| When Pornography Appears Repeatedly in the Church and “Christian” Sexual Predators Hurt Children

<p style="font-weight: 400;">I need to vent.  Porn strikes again. Another teen girl is abused by her "Christian" stepdad. Barf.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 19| Break the Silence on Cheating and Adultery in Christian Marriages Even When the Minister is the Adulterer

So the minister is having an affair. . . let's talk about cheating and adultery. Sigh....the betrayal. Do you know this pain?</p> Let's look at it and pursue healing, dear one.</p> Love,</p> Laurie</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 18 | The Abuse Tool of Gaslighting in Religious Trauma

<p style="font-weight: 400;">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.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Sources:</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/gaslighting-word-of-year-2022-merriam-webster-dictionary">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/gaslighting-word-of-year-2022-merriam-webster-dictionary</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/merriam-webster-word-year-2022-gaslighting-hope-2023-rcna58996">https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/merriam-webster-word-year-2022-gaslighting-hope-2023-rcna58996</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:4lauriesullivan@gmail.com">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 17 | Break the Silence on Sexual Abuse in a Church by Talking about Pornography and the Men of God

<p style="font-weight: 400;">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.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 16 | Healing from Sexual Abuse within the Church

<p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">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.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Does this sound familiar? Join me today as we face the truth and find the healing! </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">It is my honor to join you in healing from this type of abuse. God and I love you!!!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Love, Laurie</em></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">4lauriesullivan@gmail.com</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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EP 15| Celebration of Listeners of The Church Abused Coach in 13 Countries. We Are Not Alone.

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.</p> Email <a href="mailto:laurie@victoriousanyway.co">laurie@victoriousanyway.co</a></p> Let us know what you need us to broadcast, how we can help!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Connect: </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">FB – Victorious,anyway – Follow me!</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:laurie@victoriousanyway.co">laurie@victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Learn:  <a href="http://www.victoriousanyway.co/">www.victoriousanyway.co</a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Coaching:  4 customized sessions to your pain story. [introductory price=$199]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Read:  <em>Married by Myself: Living a Parallel Life with a Man Hiding Behind the Cloth   </em>[$20]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Write:  <em>Married by Myself: Journal to Healing. </em>[$15]</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>            Happy Thoughts: A 31-Day Journal to Cultivating Joy  </em>[$15]</p>

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