Topics for
Healing Groups
and Retreats
Understanding Spiritual Trauma & Abuse
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Identifying trauma and abuse.
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How our minds, emotions and bodies are impacted by trauma.
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Responses to fight, flight, freeze and fawn.
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Generational Spiritual Trauma
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Nature of religion in grooming abuse and unhealthy relationships
Power and Leadership
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DARVO tactics and Narcissism
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How systems protect; group think
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Noticing a problem doesn't make you the problem.
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Scriptures used in harmful ways.
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Identifying unhealthy messages of shame and rejection.
Stabilization for
Safety and Coping
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Practices for calming our tensions and triggers.
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Finding beauty throughout our journeys.
Where was God?
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Examples of abuse in the Bible and what God thinks about it.
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Where was God when this happened to me?
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How our view of God is impacted by spiritual trauma
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Identity and worth; how you see you, how God sees you.
Your Story Matters
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The importance of being heard and believed in healing.
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How to talk about your trauma with various people
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Building blocks to help you tell your story.
What to do with our Pain
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Identifying our emotions
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Talking about and expressing our pain.
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The importance of lament and how God meets us there.
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How has your community responded to what happened to you? What can you celebrate? What do you need to grieve?
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What healing and support are you looking for?
Coping and Managing
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Setting boundaries and self care.
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When and how to leave an abusive religious community.
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Resources for help and healing from spiritual trauma.
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Confronting- when is a conversation appropriate and when is it not? How to approach it--NOT alone!!
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The benefits of journaling
Re-Awakening Creativity
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What's happening in the brain when you're creating and what that means for healing trauma.
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Clarity , intuition and problem Solving
Moving Forward and Resilience
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What is forgiveness and what it's not. Taking the pressure off.
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Releasing vengeance.
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Breaking toxic patterns.
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Recognizing what we've learned.
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Self-discovery and critical thinking
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Finding healthy community.
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Identifying healthy leadership.
Art and Creative Expression in Healing
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Expressing emotions through art.
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Why the Expressive Arts Heal.
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Establishing a peaceful mindset before we begin.
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Music influence while creating.
Healing Core Beliefs
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Identify core beliefs about who I am.
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Messages I've believed and received from family, society, theology etc.
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Overcoming Mindset
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How core beliefs can foster healthy life.​
The Creative Expression
of God
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God as an artist
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Created in His image
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God gifting creatives
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Types of Expressive Arts