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Overcoming Sexual Abuse

As I sit here and reflect on my life, I’m in awe at what God is doing at this present moment.

We can be healed in one area of our life and totally broken in another.

A few months ago in prayer, the holy spirit  revealed that I needed to deal with the sexual abuse that occurred  in my life some 30 + years ago.

My attitude was, “it happened, so what, get over it Nicole.”  And that’s  how I lived for years. I built a wall of protection to cover the little girl that was  hurting. She was hidden deep on the inside because no one protected her,  she had to protect herself.

The little girl was never fully healed. She was protected but not healed. Continue Reading