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</html><description>&#xA0; Last year I blogged about Dr. Barb Orlowski&#x2019;s research on spiritual abuse. &#xA0;Barb contacted me during a time when I was going through a very difficult period in my own life and she was very helpful to me in both her active listening and in her own decision to contact the District church leaders that she knew personally to act on our behalf. &#xA0;Her intervention resulted in an investigation that dealt with the abusive situation. &#xA0;While the cause of... Read More Read More</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.mmoutreach.org/wim/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/orlowski.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
