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Healing the effects of childhood sexual abuse
Written for the Sentinel
A Happy childhood can provide a strong foundation to build a life on. But a traumatic experience can seem to weaken that foundation and leave bad effects that carry into adulthood. Sexual abuse, like any harmful experience, claims to cause permanent damage because one cannot go back and undo what has been done. When it happens to children, it seems even worse, because they have to deal with something they don't even understand.
Can the effects of sexual abuse in childhood be healed? Yes, if we understand that man, God's child, is more than the physical being he appears to be and that God is something more than a faraway figure.

May 27, 1996 issue
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Children as victors, not victims
Elaine Kay Lang
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Finding "lost" children: the essential point
Warren Wolcott Gibson
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Freeing child and parent
Sharon Slaton Howell
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Memory and gratitude
Keith Austin Wommack
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Dear Sentinel
with contributions from Kyle Miller, Andrea Schaaf
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Truth and reconciliation
by Kim Shippey
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Rejoice!
Priscilla Holzworth
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Self-esteem, right doing, and satisfaction
Barbara M. Vining
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Breaking the habit of fear
Mary Metzner Trammell
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When I was a sophomore in high school, I had the opportunity...
Germain Eolia DeMartinis
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I have had many occasions over the years to be grateful for...
Pamela K. McIntyre
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One day about three years ago, when I was crossing a street...
Augusto Jorge Azevedo
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From early childhood, I suffered from poor health
Poonam Arora