Your abuse was an event in time, it shouldn't define who you are! #metoo #metoomovement

You are not your abuse. Abuse happens. I've been sexually abused. I've been phsycially abused. I've been abandoned. I've emotionally neglected. I understand spiritual neglect and abuse. I've been counseling people for over 30 years. I've heard and seen all types of stories of abuse.

You can begin to identify yourself with the abuse as if that is your identity. Your abuse is not you. Your abuse is an event that happened to you. It is a photograph in a longer movie and in that movie you are successful because Christ died for you. In that movie you can move past the abuse.

You don't have to be defined by the sexual or physical abuse because you are not those events. You don't have to be what your mom or dad did or didn't say to you because you are not those words.

You are bigger, greater, stronger and more powerful because Christ died for you - not just for the abuse that happened to you. You are bigger than that. You are going to go past that. You will pass time. You abuse is stuck at a point in time. You have out grown it. You are stronger than it and it will make you stronger.

Today, remember that you are not your abuse. Visit the Heart to Heart Counseling Center website at: https://drdougweiss.com/ or call us for counseling and sex addiction help at 719-278-3708.