Sentences with phrase «story of abuse»

It is a slow process of building trust and creating a safe place for people to share stories of abuse and hopes for the future.

We are familiar with these enduring attacks on our mental and emotional wellbeing through widespread stories of abuse of power at highest levels of society.

Every day, we hear heart - breaking stories of abuse and neglect.

She tells stories of abuse, neglect, and all the other ills that beset a very poor community even without a trauma like The Storm, as Katrina is called.

Harrowing stories of abuse without any consequences for the abusers abound!

These real people sharing their own stories of abuse makes it apparent that Weinstein is just one small part of the problem.

In the letter, Gleason claims he spoke with two women who had «identical» stories of abuse by Schneiderman, then in his first term as the state attorney general.

It's an accidentally - timely action game about savagely murdering the Nazis in control of the United States, but also one about a memorable, multicultural, genuinely loveable group of rebels, and a heartbreaking story of abuse, love, and introspection for its hero.

I've cried over their individual stories of abuse and neglect, and cheered when they have been adopted into loving homes.

In fact, if you talk about someone's story of abuse for too long, apparently you become the abuser by reminding people of past abuses that have not been addressed appropriately if at all.

We covered a lot of ground this week, and we told a lot of stories, but there are still many stories we didn't tell — stories of human trafficking and sex slavery, stories of men abused by women, stories of redemption and reconciliation, stories of abuse on the mission field.

then tell us your truthful stories of abuse and neglect and your views.

The admission has prompted other victims to air stories of abuse that happened years ago at parishes within the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.

And what a tale it is, for beyond the headlines this is a complex story of abuse, courage, outrageous incompetence, and unfairness at the deepest levels regarding the poison of public schadenfreude.

She praised the press for uncovering stories of abuse, and declared that she values it «more than ever before, as we try to navigate these complicated times.»

As Dolores tries to clear her name, a much more mundane and depressingly banal story of abuse emerges, much to the anger of Selena who would rather never hear the horrible truth.

His demise, coupled with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, resulted in multiple stories of abuse, and many dramatic falls from grace.

Aimes» life has been one long story of abuse, and being let down, by men, (in particular her workplace supervisors whose responsibility it is to ensure her welfare), and in spite of that she is dignified and strong when she claims all she wants to do is earn a living to support her children.

Eventually, members of the team speak with survivors, who offer horrifying stories of abuse in excruciating detail.

The raw story of an abused African - American girl from Harlem is # 1 on the NYT's paperback trade fiction bestseller list, and the movie version received the prestigious Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

They've been lined up behind her like a bunch of sniggering school boys, more anguish, more slutty sex, more stories of abuse please.

Horrific stories of abuse, rape and murder were told at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Wednesday afternoon in Richmond, but the tragic stories were always filled with love and kernels of hope for the next generation.

Dana and Don shared real life stories of abuse and psychological damage to children, the current custody laws and the alternatives to old thinking.

The MP's report also found harrowing stories of abuse, including a hospital consultant who was kicked in the head by a drunk and medics who've had televisions thrown at them.

Apparently, when you started playing Detective Benson, you got letters from viewers sharing their own stories of abuse.

Once separated from her mother, V's stories of abuse by her stepfather became more numerous and improbable, including charges of repeated rape although the gynecological exam was normal.

I've cried over their individual stories of abuse and neglect, and cheered when they have been adopted... Continue reading →

When a woman begins to tell a story of abuse, she is reaching out for help and healing.

«Julie Ingersoll, a professor at the University of North Florida who studies evangelical communities, said mental isolation is key to abuse, and websites telling the stories of abuse survivors «completely undermine the power of abusers to convince their victims that it's their fault and that they're all alone.

Noor has told her story of abuse at his hands.

This is the fifth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the third post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

May we all be inspired to speak with more truth, more conviction, more care, and more bravery about this difficult topic, so that our awareness doesn't end here, but continues to grow, until the day when all things are reconciled to the source of love, and the story of abuse is only a memory.

This is the sixth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

The stories of the abuses of pastoral power and control are legion.

It started with Twitter users Emily Joy and Hannah Paasch, who took to social media to share their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders under the hashtag #ChurchToo.

If you recognize some of your own experience in the stories of abuse above, or if the culture of your church is highly authoritarian and patriarchal, get out.

Surely these stories of abuse or injustice are anomalies, right?

This is the seventh post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the second post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the first post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the ninth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the fourth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the tenth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

For the next several minutes he shared his life's story of abuse, foster homes, repeated incarcerations for drunkenness, theft and larceny.

He shares his harrowing story of abuse and recovery in his memoir, Basketball Junkie, as well as in numerous interviews throughout the Emmy nominated ESPN Films documentary Unguarded, of which he is the subject.

Stephen Jimenez — a survivor of child sexual abuse and the co-founder of advocacy group New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators — sits down with «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills to talk about his story of abuse.

Leaders within those groups say there is a shift happening, seen in recent months by the emergence of women and some men who have come forward to reveal their stories of abuse and harassment by people in positions of power.

Democratic candidate for Governor Cynthia Nixon praised the women who shared the stories of their abuse.