Overview
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- Intro to abuse in the IFB
- Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
- Learned Helplessness in the former Hephzibah Girls
- Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
- Interview with Susan Grotte (a 29 month resident of HH in the '80s)
- Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
Physical Abuse
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- Jeri Massi addresses the correct interpretation of “chastisement” in Hebrews 12 (offsite at HephzibahGirls.com
- Similar onsite post featuring Jeri's translation of paideia (chastisement understood as nurture) concerning hermeneutics and Michael Pearl
Misogyny and “Strange Women”
(young children who are said to have the soul of a prostitute)
ABUSE AND MIND
CONTROL
AT HEPHZIBAH HOUSE
(Lucinda Pennington
often featured as an exemplar)
Understanding Altered Memory in Mind
Control (a focus on HH)
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- Final Review and Summary of Doctrine Over Person (summary of posts about created history under the pressure of thought reform with a focus on HH)
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and the Ingram Family (Family who creates, accepts and believes an alternate version of reality under the pressure of thought reform and interrogation)
- Transformed Memory in a POW Camp (a way of coping with mind control)
- Reaffirming the Myth (how and why victims change their memories and believe falsehood as a coping response to mind control)
- Changing Memory to Gain an Abuser's Approval (Martin on mind control)
- Altered States of Consciousness Contribute to Altered Memory (how mind control adversely affects a person's ability to think and their mental development)
- The Role of Trauma/PTSD in Altered Memory (trauma as a physical process; nouthetic counseling can inhibit healing from PTSD)
Trauma within Families Before
Hephzibah House: Children Primed for Victimization
- Five Characteristics of Children (Priming them for Continued Victimization (how children can be misunderstood and abused)
- Training Children to Have No Personal Boundaries (and how this creates abusers)
- Degrees of Neglect and Abuse (lack of care for children's needs)
- Healing through the Twelve Steps
- How to Find a Counselor
How Abuse of Children Makes Adults
Become “Victims of Circumstance”
- Responding to Those Who Challenge the Former Hephzibah Girls
Post Traumatic Stress and the
Affects of Abuse
- Note previous posts on this subject
- Upcoming posts in January/February 2012
- Shattered Optimism in PTSD (and its role in self-protection
- Learned Helplessness and Bounded Choice at Hephzibah House
- The Freezing Response (Immobility) in Response to Threat
STOP THE ABUSE
OFFSITE RESOURCES
Podcasts
Survivor Blogs
- Hephzibah Girls Blog (Susan Grotte's blogspot; This site includes copies of documents distributed to families by Ron Williams.)
- Former Hephzibah Girls (Visit their links page for more links on activism.)
Social Media
- Facebook