Lily Rebecca
Mennonite Church Support and Therapy
Then, both the ladies stopped talking, and both seemed to realize that they were saying opposite things
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Lily Rebecca
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Plain Mennonite and Mental Health
Lily Rebecca an active Plain Mennonite woman who sought both professional and church support for mental health resources
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Feb 15
- 3 min
Hijack Hell
(The conversation about the arrest of an Anabaptist person for sexual abuse of a child being hijacked to say child sexual abuse is no...
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Dec 10, 2022
- 5 min
Update 7: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
As our final update on the results of the study, we would like to thank every one of our participants for being willing to share
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Oct 29, 2022
- 5 min
Update 6: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
To protect the privacy of participants, we summarized the responses to "How were you impacted by CSA?"
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Lauri Stoltzfus
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Open Letter to Goshen College & Bluffton University
My name is Lauri Stoltzfus, and I recently saw a packet of materials sent to social work professors and college academic leaders
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Sep 24, 2022
- 6 min
Update 5: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
We found that the highest rates of child sexual abuse were among those who were born Anabaptist (49%)
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Aug 20, 2022
- 2 min
Update 2 : CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
There is a significant difference in the child sexual abuse experiences of the people who are currently Anabaptist.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Aug 13, 2022
- 1 min
Update: Child Sexual Abuse in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities
Update on the research study: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities with the calculated percentages.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min
Amish Take Care of Their Own
" They often say if we were abused, we had a rebellious heart. Confessing will help us submit."
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Mary Byler
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
The Little Girl
The Little Girl
22 January 2006
By Mary Byler
I can’t breathe, let me go, let me go…
I screamed…
I can’t see, let me go, let me go…
…but no
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Rue
- Apr 2, 2022
- 2 min
After
Sometimes, when we connect with fellow trauma survivors, we find moments of clarity and solidarity in discussing trauma experiences
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Amish Parental Love
“It’s often taught as a transactional type of love”.
What do I mean by this?
It’s conditional on the Amish person or child complying with
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Mary Byler
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
Come as You Are
Start by being present with us as we walk through this journey of finding the will to live after the horror and terror.
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Jan 15, 2022
- 3 min
Amish Child’s Prayer
I heard there is joy & smiles to be had, I’ve done nothing wrong, why do I feel so bad?
Who do I tell, where do I go? What do I reap
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Mary Byler
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Forgive?
"When you wrong someone and you ask for forgiveness, it is up to that person to choose whether to forgive you or not. "
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Hope Anne Dueck
- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
Is it Verbal Porn?
Advocates are repeatedly having survivors get in touch with us after they have reached out to people who they thought were safe, only to be
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The Misfit Amish LLC
- Nov 7, 2021
- 2 min
An Open Letter to Religion
Laying in bed, with my hood over my head, hugging my teddy bear wishing I was dead.
That’s what it does to me.
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Mary Byler
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
Is Autism a Disability?
When I can keep a job that I'm damn good at but can't organize my own house cleaning schedule?
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Mary Byler
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
How do Amish Handle Sexual Abuse of Children?
The Amish punish rapists and pedophiles by 6 weeks of shunning and then no one is to ever speak of it again.
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