An honest critique of nouthetic counseling. We can do better. Please consider what Marie has to say.
An honest critique of nouthetic counseling. We can do better. Please consider what Marie has to say.
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Yes, this was really concerning to me also. A couple of things that I think are really wonderful for healing and prevention are peer support groups, addicts helping addicts, survivors helping survivors, parents helping parents. We are the experts on our own story. Counseling tends to set up a dynamic where we are perceived as spiritually flawed or mentally ill, when in fact what we usually are is simply the isolated casualties of someone else’s behavior. Often what victims need is healing and love, not necessarily “treatment.”
Also, if you can get a healthy church setting going on, where a bunch of women are empowered to be sisters to our sisters, nurturing them as we were designed to do, it makes a huge impact. In oppressive systems women learn to compete with one another for scraps of power, so that sisterly support and encouragement is absent. Toxic secrets and abuse thrive in an environment where there isolation, and an inability to speak the truth to one another.