Breaking the Silence: Sandy Phillips Kirkham on Clergy Abuse, Healing, and Finding Your Voice
A place meant to offer safety, trust, and spiritual guidance can sometimes become the setting for profound harm. For survivors of clergy abuse, the journey toward healing can involve years of silence, confusion, shame, and questions that are difficult to share.
In this deeply personal episode of Beyond the Draft, host Imma welcomes Sandy Phillips Kirkham, author, speaker, and advocate for survivors of clergy abuse, to discuss her experience, the lasting effects of abuse, and the courage it takes to reclaim one's voice.
Sandy experienced abuse by her church's youth minister when she was a…
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