foreign welcome to therapy and theology I’m Lisa turkhurst and with me I have Dr Joel mudumale and licensed professional counselor Jim Cress now we are doing a series right now in therapy and theology called let’s stop avoiding this conversation six topics women have big questions about and in episode one of this series we talked about why everyone loses when a woman is devalued and in this very important episode I want to talk about the part emotional abuse plays in silencing women mainly we’re gonna really focus on the silencing of

women but first I want to make sure we understand that there’s two categories of silencing women and we’re going to cover those two different categories in this episode we’re going to cover one and in the next episode we’re going to cover the other so in this episode we’re going to focus on personal silencing and in the next episode public silencing but let me first start by defining emotional abuse and certainly if you guys have anything you want to add to this definition please feel free to do so because you know like I always say Joel

you’re going to bring the Deep theology gym brings the therapeutic wisdom and education and I bring the issues and sometimes Google definitions okay yes why not absolutely so here’s what I found from Psychology today emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior and if you’re a note-taking person I would love for you to really highlight that word pattern it’s not a mistake that someone makes that’s just an offshoot a rare happening something that because they are in I don’t emotionally sad place right now it happened it’s not a one-off so an