Domestic Violence Seminar, "Journey of Freedom: Violence & Abuse" Complete Program 2020 & Beyond! Revisited 2022 (Introduction)

[Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks, PsyD]

Due to the recent cases of domestic violence, that ended in the death of the victims, along with other innocent loved ones, I believe God wants me to revisit the “Domestic Violence Seminar: Violence & Abuse” Program’s teachings, Minister Everett James, and I started in July of 2020.

Therefore, beginning Monday, September 26, 2022, I will be sending out weekly sessions from the “Domestic Violence Seminar: Violence & Abuse” Program. However, this program is the second program in the “Journey of Freedom” (JOF) Program Series. The dates on the YouTube videos, and the PDF versions of some teachings, along with complete program outline, will stay the same as they were posted in 2020 – that way you can keep them in order with each other. But I will put the new dates, beside the old dates, in the materials in am putting on the website each week. There are three sessions, with different parts to each session, for a total of twelve weeks, in the “Violence & Abuse” Program.

In the “Handout” sections of each topic, you might see listed what’s the next program will be. You can disregard that because you have all the programs listed below. What’s important now is the “Violence & Abuse” Program. Also, in the PDF version of that session’s topic, you will see a statement about writing down your questions to discuss at the next session. Disregard that statement also – this program information is for you to keep or share with someone else who needs it.

If you have any questions, comment on my website under each session or email me directly at [e-mail].

If you have any questions for Minister Everett James, contact him by email: [e-mail] or contact him via his website: Eastern Missouri Bible College (mn.co).

Click here for the first part of the JOF Program, which is “Importance of Forgiveness.” Forgiveness is the first step of your COMPLETE freedom from domestic violence and abuse. Therefore, if have not forgiven the abuser, please take time to go through the forgiveness program.

And after “Violence & Abuse” Program, the third part is “Anger Management” Program.

There are two more sections, “Emotional Healing Series,” and “AWM Book Discussion Group” – these are also independent studies and they are taught in conjunction with the other topics. Click here for the link to the complete “Journey of Freedom” Program (you can study the other topics, at your leisure).

My main focus is on the “Domestic Violence Seminar: Violence & Abuse” Program.  Because I want to get this information out, to help women, men, and anyone in a domestic abusive relationship of any kind!! NO ONE should have to live in constant terror!!

I want the ones who are currently in an abusive relationship to know, God loves them and is with them!! And if they seek God, He WILL give them directions as He did me. And I want to help the ones who have escaped the abusive relationship, to find freedom from the bondage they were in!! Because I know, just because you left the abusive environment, doesn’t mean the abuse is out of you!! It me YEARS to recover from the last abusive marriage – I had layers of junk in my soul!! BUT THANK GOD FOR DELIVERING ME, HEALING ME, AND RESTORING ME TO WHOLENESS!! THANK YOU FATHER, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU HOLY SPIRIT!!

Since the session’s notes, videos, and everything pertaining to the series, will remain the same, on September 26^th you will receive part of the first session’s teaching, which is “S1 Parts 1A & 1A-1,” of the “Violence & Abuse” Program (I have included an outline of the complete program and there will be a separate outline for part of the first session’s teaching. You will receive three separate PDFs: Introduction, Complete Outline, and First Part of Session 1 Teaching).  

I will remove the Zoom information from these materials I am putting on the website. Because it is not relevant now, since these will not be live Zoom sessions, but independent study sessions.

If you know of anyone who can benefit from these teachings on domestic violence, and the other topics we will address, please forward the message to the person or people you know.

And as you are led, please pray for the victims, and their families of domestic violence, those who suffer from domestic violence affects, after they left, and the ones who are still in a domestic abusive relationship.

I know firsthand how an abusive woman feel, day in, and day out – it’s a living nightmare of hell!! Even though the situations are different, the results are the same – brokenness, low self-esteem, loneliness, feeling unloved, and the list goes on. I thank God for delivering me from those seven abusive marriages!! The LAST abusive marriage was in October of 2006 (we got divorced before then, but this is when God SNATCHED him COMPLETELY out of my life!! PRAISE GOD, I DID NOT ALLOW him to come back)!! God can deliver us from people, but He WILL NOT force us to let those people stay gone!! When God deliver you, if you are in an abusive relationship, PLEASE let that person STAY GONE!! IT COULD BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, OR YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH!! You can read my story of deliverance, where GOD brought me from, in my book, “Unholy Matrimony: Healing For The Abused Woman.”

NEVER GIVE UP!! GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU!! GOD SEES YOU AND IS WAITING FOR YOU TO REACH OUT TO HIM FOR HELP!! GOD WILL NEVER VIOLATE YOUR FREE WILL – LET HIM KNOW YOU WANT HIS HELP!!

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God’s BLESSINGS to you all and your families!!

In Christ,

Rev. Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks, PsyD