5 Tools to Help You Manage Post-Traumatic Stress on Your Path of Empowerment

by Torah Bontrager | Sep 29, 2021 | Sexual Assault Survivor Support, Trauma

In light that so many of us deal with childhood trauma, especially trauma connected to sexual abuse or religious abuse, I thought I’d share some of my experiences with PTS (post-traumatic stress, also known as PTSD) and subsequent depression—and the various...

Did Your Parent Crave Your Attention? You Might Suffer From Emotional Incest.

by Torah Bontrager | Sep 26, 2021 | Sexual Assault Survivor Support, Trauma

In a previous post, “How Parentification Disrupts Your Development and Holds You Back as an Adult”, I mentioned that I’d discuss emotional incest, which falls under the umbrella of parentification. Or at least in my view it’s a part of...

Emotional or Covert Incest: 31 Eye-Opening Signs to Empower You to Get Help

by Torah Bontrager | Sep 24, 2021 | Sexual Assault Survivor Support, Trauma

This is an excerpt of an upcoming post, “Did Your Parent Crave Your Attention? You Might Suffer From Emotional Incest.”. This post introduces the definitions of emotional incest and covert incest, 31 signs of emotional incest, and a resource for safe,...

How Parentification Disrupts Your Development and Holds You Back as an Adult

by Torah Bontrager | Sep 10, 2021 | Sexual Assault Survivor Support, Trauma

If you’d like to know how to celebrate the Easter holiday the Amish way, I share my practicing Amish experiences of various aspects, from the Easter bunny to Easter egg hunts to church services, below. (Keep scrolling for the video version of this post.) Good...

Think Secular Is Atheist? How the Christian Right Take Advantage of You

by Torah Bontrager | Sep 5, 2021 | Amish Definitions, Amish Resources

The Amish Heritage Foundation (AHF) is secular, but we get accused by nonpracticing Amish––and others of Amish heritage––of being atheist. The belief is that “secular” equals “atheist”. That’s a completely false equation, perpetuated by...

Amish 101: Top 5 Resources to Better Educate You on the Amish

by V.B., Summer Intern | Jul 19, 2021 | Amish Resources

Most of us have a vague idea of who the Amish are and what Amish society is like, but much of those narratives are influenced by deliberate campaigns to prey upon the Amish as a symbol in a religiopolitical argument (e.g., US Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder) or...