Healing Touch By: Susan Deborah Schiller "Don't cry," said the healing ministers. "We need you to repeat after us these prayers so you can be set free from the pain." I used to be one of them – I knew the entire procedure by heart. But, to be honest, I simply wanted a human touch, a hand on […]
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An Encounter at God's Beauty Spa By: Susan Deborah Schiller What if the abuse you've endured serves to make you bigger, better, and more beautiful? What if what scares you turns into your greatest source of blessing? What if the ugliest things you've seen and heard are being used to make you more beautiful? What if the weapon […]
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Nothing is Impossible By: Susan Deborah Schiller "There is nothing you cannot do," says Tao Porchon-Lynch, 96-year old yoga instructor and ballroom dancer. You may wonder what a yoga instructor has to do with surviving sociopathic abuse. How can her version of "impossible" possibly relate to your living nightmare? You've been beaten for over two […]
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Duplicity – Living a Double Life By: White Dove My husband, a church leader also, was a pathological liar. But what was I? I was lying every day, every time I smiled. Every time I taught in church. I lied every time I assured people I loved my husband and my husband loved me. I […]
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Never Alone By: Susan Deborah Schiller A little chapter in my mini-memoir, where I learned that God is in the daily details of our lives. Jumping into my boots I launch myself into the icy Wyoming wind to break ice on the troughs. It's one of those times when I nearly persuade myself that I am alone. I call myself, "The […]
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You are Enough: The Gift of Inadequacy A Ted Talk by Taylor Gahm A video worth watching many times! "My idea worth spreading is that we're lucky when we don't measure up, when we don't fit in, when we don't have what it takes, because then we have the chance to uncover who we really […]
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