57. Emotional Abuse - Cara Shope

Recognizing and dealing with a subtle form of abuse vs. the sincere desire to honor marriage.

RESOURCES

Scriptural Study Groups of Central Ohio Nouthetic counseling BibleProject Podcast Restitutio One God Report 2022 UCA Conference Registration

LINKS FOR ADDITIONAL READING

5 Myths the Church Often Believes About Domestic Violence Message to a Baptist Church: You Preached Death to the Hearts of One Hundred Women Today 1-in-4 Highly Religious U.S. Marriages Have Abuse Four Things the Church Doesn’t know About Abusive Marriages NCADV National Abuse Statistics Confronting Domestic Violence with Love and Authority

EPISODE INDEX

(05:44) The interview, introductions (09:08) The problem (12:31) Religions amplification (13:39) A Part-time job (16:01) Isolating (17:08) Men abused, too (17:44) Counseling (19:51) Who am I trying to please? (20:50) The move out (21:34) Unitarian beliefs (22:07) Theology text landmines (22:52) Fired before starting (23:48) Understanding emotional abuse (25:34) Gaslighting (26:46) Projection (28:53) Word salad (30:14) Hoovering (31:16) One in three (32:25) Blame shifting (32:50) Playing the victim (33:27) Control + isolation (35:00) What do we do? (36:09) Gray and yellow rock (39:22) Convincing them? (41:00) Staying married (41:53) Counseling (43:12) God's heart (45:51) Teaching caveat (47:27) Current helping efforts (49:47) Cara and the next UCA conference (51:27) UCA announcement (52:22) New event in Indiana (53:10) Tim from Virginia (55:05) Boat and crew example

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