Healing Our Gendered Wounds

By |2024-09-13T12:45:23+00:00September 13th, 2024|Church, Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence, Healing, patriarchy, Relationships, Sexism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Violence, women|

It is vital, especially in the historical segregation of genders within Christian communities, to address and heal our gendered wounds, full-faced and fully storied. I will unpack what I mean by that.  Growing up in the bible-belt at the height of the purity culture of the 90s, I was taught [...]

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Pearl Divers: A Picture of Equality in Marriage

By |2023-01-09T14:45:05+00:00January 9th, 2023|Healing, Marriage, Relationships, women|

Have you ever heard the story of how traditional pearl divers dive for pearls? Mark Nepo shares in his book, The Book of Awakening, this powerful metaphor on relationships.  Pearl divers dive in pairs, without oxygen tanks, and they need each other to have a successful dive. While he dives [...]

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The Healthy Relationship Indicator

By |2018-11-06T20:58:07+00:00October 6th, 2018|Healing, Relationships|

©Andrew Bauman 2017 all rights reserved   Above is what I call the healthy relationship indicator. It can be used as a measurement tool for therapists to measure couple’s relational connectivity in a variety of places of intimacy. It can also be used to self rate to see where you [...]

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