There are many excellent resources for those who have been affected by sexual predation, abuse, advances, or any other deviation of desire. We at SGC love highlighting resources that help bring restoration to victims, and justice to aggressors.
One such resource is Pure Desire Ministries. Please checkout this article on becoming free from addictive behaviors:
If you have spent any considerable amount of time around recovery, you likely understand the significance of digging down to the root of the addictive behaviors. This root is often centered around traumatic and/or abusive experiences of some degree.
Many people turn toward unwanted behaviors as a way of coping, avoiding, or numbing a painful memory of this abuse or trauma. While this is a very simplified description, it is not intended to minimize or trivialize this reality. Only to summarize.
How does this story change when unwanted behaviors look very similar to someone who is coping, avoiding, or numbing painful experiences, but there is no recollection of the traumatic experience? The journey of healing and recovery becomes like a puzzle; all of the corners and edge pieces are in place, but there are three or four significant pieces that are missing, so the complete intention of the puzzle can not be seen until those pieces are found.
Read the rest of the article here: https://puredesire.org/blog/the-truth-will-set-you-free/
