Information About Hephzibah House and Resources for Survivors

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Overview

• Susan Grotte's Account
• CNN Report, September 2, 2011
• Kathryn Joyce's July/August 2011 article on IFB Teen Home Abuse (Offsite link)
• Blog Talk Radio Episodes
  • Intro to abuse in the IFB
    • Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
      
      
  • Learned Helplessness in the former Hephzibah Girls
    • Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
      
      
  • Interview with Susan Grotte (a 29 month resident of HH in the '80s)
    • Listen to internet radio with jocelyn andersen on Blog Talk Radio
      
      

Physical Abuse

• Williams' sermon on the Correction and Salvation of Children
• Personal Accounts
  • Patti Williams beating an infant at HH
  • Denial and degredation concerning use of the restroom at HH
  • Physical beating at HH
  • “The Blue Room” for beatings at HH
• Jeri Massi addresses the correct interpretation of “chastisement” in Hebrews 12 (offsite at HephzibahGirls.com
  • Similar onsite post featuring Jeri's translation of paideia (chastisement understood as nurture) concerning hermeneutics and Michael Pearl

Misogyny and “Strange Women” (young children who are said to have the soul of a prostitute)

• Williams sermon concerning his Strange Woman Doctrine
• A Christian response to the Strange Woman Doctrine: Redeeming Dinah
• Jon Zens' book mentions patriarchal domination of women at HH
• Problems within the IFB (HH as a dumping ground for tramatized girls)

ABUSE AND MIND CONTROL

AT HEPHZIBAH HOUSE

(Lucinda Pennington often featured as an exemplar)

Understanding Altered Memory in Mind Control (a focus on HH)

• How Doctrine Over Person has Affected Lucinda Pennington
  • Sycophant for a Sociopath does Damage Control
• Final Review and Summary of Doctrine Over Person (summary of posts about created history under the pressure of thought reform with a focus on HH)
  • Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and the Ingram Family (Family who creates, accepts and believes an alternate version of reality under the pressure of thought reform and interrogation)
  • Transformed Memory in a POW Camp (a way of coping with mind control)
  • Reaffirming the Myth (how and why victims change their memories and believe falsehood as a coping response to mind control)
  • Changing Memory to Gain an Abuser's Approval (Martin on mind control)
  • Using Denial Results in Altered Memory (more Martin on surviving mind control)
  • Altered States of Consciousness Contribute to Altered Memory (how mind control adversely affects a person's ability to think and their mental development)
  • The Role of Trauma/PTSD in Altered Memory (trauma as a physical process; nouthetic counseling can inhibit healing from PTSD)

Trauma within Families Before Hephzibah House: Children Primed for Victimization

• Punishing a Child for Behaving Like a Child
• Five Characteristics of Children (Priming them for Continued Victimization (how children can be misunderstood and abused)
  • Faulty Ideas about Self-Love and Self Esteeem
  • Training Children to Have No Personal Boundaries (and how this creates abusers)
  • Perfection Primes Children for Victimization
  • Degrees of Neglect and Abuse (lack of care for children's needs)
  • Intolerance of a Child's Age Appropriate Immaturity
• Healing through the Twelve Steps
• How to Find a Counselor
• Journey Out of Shame: A List of Resources

How Abuse of Children Makes Adults Become “Victims of Circumstance”

• Responding to Those Who Challenge the Former Hephzibah Girls
• Victims of Circumstance through External Worth and Peace
• Shame-Based Parenting
• Enmeshed Parenting

Post Traumatic Stress and the Affects of Abuse

• Note previous posts on this subject
  • Altered States of Consciousness in Mind Control
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Bounded Choice
• Upcoming posts in January/February 2012
• Shattered Optimism in PTSD (and its role in self-protection
• Learned Helplessness and Bounded Choice at Hephzibah House
• The Freezing Response (Immobility) in Response to Threat

STOP THE ABUSE

• Three Easy Ways You Can Help Stop Abuse At Hephzibah House

OFFSITE RESOURCES

Podcasts

• Jeri Massi's Lambs of Hephzibah House podcasts

Survivor Blogs

• Hephzibah Girls Blog (Susan Grotte's blogspot; This site includes copies of documents distributed to families by Ron Williams.)
• Former Hephzibah Girls (Visit their links page for more links on activism.)
• HephzibahHouse.com
• Voices of the Past

Social Media

• Facebook
  • Hephzibah House
  • Hephzibah Girls
  • Forsaken the Girls of Hephzibah House 

• MySpace