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Profound Effects of Sexual Abuse

Excerpts from Dr. Dan B. Allender's The Wounded Heart:

All inappropriate sexual contact is damaging and soul-distorting.

Sexual abuse creates destructive crosscurrents and undertows in the human soul.

Someone who has been sexually abused will develop strong contempt
and obsessive self-consciousness about his or her body.

The body is punished for existing and wanting.

The style of relating to others is often the primary arena where the damage of abuse is lived out in a daily discernable form.

Victimization is usually not only an event in the past; in most cases, it's an ongoing day-by-day experience.

To forget your personal history is tantamount to trying to forget yourself and the journey [this life] has called you to live.

To live significantly less than what one was made to be is severe a betrayal of the soul as the original abuse.

Compiled by April A. Severin
Posted April 7, 2000