These materials were used in "Heart Set Free - Support group for people healing from spiritual abuse".

Date: November 2022

Presenter: Anonymous

What exactly is recovery and what kind of situation is it?

Question Writer: Yumi Ikeda Morse

1. How do you think spiritual abuse affects a person's life?

2. Consider how harmful it is

　To your body

　To the mind 

　To the spirituality

3.  If you have flashbacks, what triggers them? What is happening in our minds?

4.  Do you think physical reactions are signs of what is happening?

5.  How do we deal with flashbacks?

6.  What should we think about when we have a flashback? Are we still in trouble? Or are we recovering? How long will we be haunted by the abusive event?

7.  Please tell us what "recovery" means to you. How would you define it?

8.  How do you respond to spiritual attacks? What questions do you think arise about your faith?

9.  Is there any overlap with your experience? What problems do you think occur with organizations or people who commit spiritual abuse?