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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
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Sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men.
Sexual abuse involves unwanted or coerced sexual involvement.
Sexual trauma is an unwanted, unasked for, and/or an age-inappropriate sexual encounter.
Sexual misuse, abuse and trauma causes physical, emotion, and spiritual pain. Pain demands medication. Some destructive behaviors that are commonly used to “medicate” the pain of abuse are:
disconnecting
control
depression
suicidal attempts
sexual addiction
alcohol
drugs
overeating or not eating
pretending
anger
Shame dies when stories are told in safe place.
- Anne Voskamp
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