"Men Opening Hearts to Jesus"  is a gateway site for Christian men praying for healing / recovery from  Child Sexual Abuse.

 

        The others Gateway sites are


The original 8 steps of recovery  ( externally hosted )  

    

 

"Isaiah 61 Men"  based on the prophacy in the book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 61

          that the Spirit of the Lord would be on the Messiah

 

 "God restoring men's lives  "  

 

And  "Aussie Survivors"  written for a general audience to assist survivors.  Originally to document     Sexual Assault Services in Australia

It grew to   include  a new concept   "A Grid of issues" 

 

     Nathan is a  Graduate of Sociology  from an Australian University where he wrote essays in Sociology, Anthropology, History and Media  from a Christian perspective.   From the transferable concepts and skills he acquired  he has  progressed from  knowing basically nothing about  child sexual abuse ( his own memories locked away  until they  first surfaced in 1997 )

And nothing about Mandatory Reporting or Child Protection Policies  to being able to develop these sites  which will hopefully assist adult survivors of sexual abuse.  He  is developing wider perspectives seeing the need for recovery from sexual abuse for adult survivors and for female survivors  though he feels  this needs more than simply changing "he" to "she" in sites for female survivors.   There is also a need to assist trauma survivors recovering from any traumatic event.

 

    As Nathan progressed in his own recovery whilst  participating in survivor groups, he soon realised that the dynamics of sexual abuse, the impacts and the road to recovery  has many variables, varying in sequence and intensity.  The aim of the site is to accomodate individual paths to recovery.  The cost has been that the interconected sites and sub domains look excessively complex and overwhelming.  The next stage is to simplify the  navigation.   The aim is to show the array of issues for  readers to  select the relevant issue or process  at the time.    The site is not designed to read your way through

But to brouse looking for what is helpful at the time

And return when other issues are more important.


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