Recently, a well-known Christian podcast released a new series exploring topics like trauma, mental illness, and abuse—many of the same themes we're addressing this year on Safe to Hope. Understandably, some of our listeners are engaging with both, and a few have already shared how conflicted or invalidated they felt.

In response, we’ve released a special bonus episode. To gently offer a different perspective—one shaped by the lived experiences of survivors and informed by experts in trauma care and memory science. This episode also frames the heart of our season: why believing survivors matters, and how we hold sacred space for stories that are hard to tell.

SHOW NOTES:

Season 6 Introduction (Episode 1)

Season 1 Significance of Story

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Remember my Affliction:Advent Through Lamentations  by Kimrey Dillon

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices by Thomas Brooks

What is a Girl Worth?  by Rachel Denhollander

Living in His Presence by Sylvia Gunter (re: Luke 11:24-26)

Keith Evans quotes from https://youtu.be/nxPxss963SI?si=NbqKx7DFCqX0KyGs

Honoring the Truth: A Response to the Backlash by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Misquoted 20,000; correct is 12,000 reports of satanic ritual abuse

Misquoted 1 Timothy instead of 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Dr Jim Wilder Resources:

• The Red Dragon Cast Down: A Redemptive Approach to the Occult and Satanism
• The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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