Individual Coaching Sessions Cultic/Spiritual Abuse Recovery Specialist
Individual recovery coaching is provided by Wendy Duncan who is a retired social worker with a master’s degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She has spent most of her career in the mental health field and recently retired from Garland Behavioral Hospital. Wendy was also a former member of a pseudo-Christian, Bible-based group, and several years after leaving, she became active in cult awareness activities. She and Doug started a support group over fifteen years ago and continue to facilitate this monthly virtual support group, as well as a new group, the Wounded Sheep support group which meets monthly in Dallas, TX.
Benefits of Recovery Coaching
- Provide a safe place to discuss past experience and involvement in unhealthy cultic or spiritually abusive groups.
- Education on characteristics and dynamics of unhealthy groups.
- Help identify obstacles in the recovery journey.
- Improve insight and understanding of one's spiritual abuse.
- Gain recovery strategies to find healing, acceptance, and hope.
- Assistance in developing coping strategies and action plans for recovery.
- Understand the why and how of one's involvement in unhealthy groups.
- Help in releasing guilt and shame of experience.
- Explore lingering false beliefs and doctrines.
- Understand the mindset of the abuser and personality of cultic/spiritually abusive leaders.
- Heal image of God.
- Learn to trust again.