Overcoming Sexual Abuse, with Jenn Schmidt

Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
    and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all the oppressed.
Psalm 103:2-6

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:2-9a

For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 54:5

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5

Resources

• Intimate Covenant Podcast
• Intimate Covenant Retreat
• Trapped by Trauma | The Forgiven Wife
• Mending the Remnants of Brokenness | The Forgiven Wife
• For My Sister Sexual Assault Survivors | The Forgiven Wife
• Your Wife Has Been Sexually Harassed - Hot, Holy & Humorous
• Episode 64: Healing from Sexual Abuse, with Mary DeMuth - Sex Chat for Christian Wives
• My Larry Nassar Testimony Went Viral. But There's More to the Gospel Than Forgiveness. - Christianity Today
• Triggers: What They Are, How They Form, and What to Do
• Box Breathing for Stress - CHI Health
• About EMDR Therapy - EMDR International Association
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
• Is Your Wife a Survivor? - Knowing Her Sexually