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Laura Forehand / Sherri Bothwell Death of the Pastor’s Wife

Laura Forehand / Sherri Bothwell - Death of the Pastor's Wife Laura and Sherri are...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

New Book – Evolving from Religious Trauma

Evolving from Religious Trauma Hello! We are Karl and Laura Forehand! For the last 8-10...

May 15, 2024

In Search of a Grown-up

In Search of a Grown-up Audio version of this blog! AI Generated In real life, I’m...

April 2024

April 04, 2024

An Open Letter to Pastors for Consideration

An Open Letter to Pastors for Consideration I was a pastor for 20 years. About...

April 01, 2024

Evolving From Religious Trauma

Listen to this blog - Created by AI Hello! We are Karl and Laura Forehand! For...

March 2024

March 08, 2024

316 – Rachael Peach – IFB Abuse Survivor

Rachael Peach - IFB Abuse Survivor Rachel is an abuse survivor who suffered abuse in...

February 2024

February 01, 2024

A Treasure Trove of Trauma Resources

A Treasure Trove of Trauma Resources Leaning Forward Conference Recently, The Desert Sanctuary hosted...

January 2024

January 29, 2024

314 – Unmasking Patriarchy: Diagnosing Narcissism & Abuse

Unmasking Patriarchy: Diagnosing Narcissism & Abuse David Hayward (from his Website) I am a pastor...

January 07, 2024

Stop, Drop, and Heal

Stop, Drop, and Heal Seven or eight years ago, we began what most people call...

January 05, 2024

Usurping Women’s Voices from the Patriarchy, Sherri Bothwell

Usurping Women’s Voices from the Patriarchy Sherri Bothwell was introduced to Christianity as an 11-year-old...

January 03, 2024

Trauma and the Pastor’s Wife with Laura Forehand

Trauma and the Pastor’s Wife Laura Forehand is a third-grade teacher and former pastor’s wife....

January 01, 2024

Reclaiming Married Sex from Purity Culture – Megan Benninger

Reclaiming Married Sex from Purity Culture Megan Benninger has survived spiritual abuse in a variety...

December 2023

December 29, 2023

How to Speak Women with Susan Cottrell

How to Speak Women Susan Cottrell is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6...

December 25, 2023

Trauma and the Black Community with NikkiG

Trauma and the Black Community Nikki G. is a Life Coach and Advanced Certified Trauma...

December 22, 2023

The Intersection of Patriarchy and Abuse with Ashley Easter

The Intersection of Patriarchy and Abuse Ashley Easter is a trained victim advocate, an author,...

December 18, 2023

As A Woman with Paula Stone Williams

As A Woman with Paula Stone Williams I was lucky to create a Leaning...

December 15, 2023

Advocates for Healing and Change with Janyne McConnoughey

Advocates for Healing and Change with Janyne McConnoughey I was lucky to create a Leaning...

December 13, 2023

What I Learned from Women about Religious Trauma

What I Learned from Women about Religious Trauma I was a pastor for almost 20...

December 11, 2023

Tending the Wounds of Religious Trauma with Rebekah Drumsta

Tending the Wounds of Religious Trauma I was lucky to create a conference called Leaning...

December 04, 2023

The 5-Why and Church Harm

The 5-Why and Church Harm In the 1930s, the Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda (the inventor...

November 2023

November 19, 2023

What Women Know About Trauma

Leaning Forward is the title of a book by Karl and Laura Forehand about moving...

September 2023

September 10, 2023

Why Theologians?

Why Theologians? I wasn't always a theologian. But somewhere, in the middle of my journey,...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

It’s Okay for God

I know some great fathers. They are kind to their wife and children and deliberate...

June 13, 2023

Disentangling

All of us have been there at one time or another. We come to that...

June 06, 2023

Jim Bob and Michelle

There are lots of things that bothered me about the documentary, Shiny Happy People. For...

May 2022

May 10, 2022

How Pastors Foster Abuse

Only in the past 100 years have we begun to truly understand how humans work....

March 2022

March 20, 2022

The Nature of Abuse

One of the things I appreciate most about the deconstruction movement is the fact that...