I have named this website and my subsequent work related to it:
THE BOOK OF ELIZABETH
because it is a collective of stories, photos and videos about my journey out of darkness and into the light of God's love.
This website is not about religion nor is it about conversion to a religion or denomination. This is a place to find hope, healing and restoration for you or a loved one affected by trauma, mind control and/or ritual abuse.
For me, before finding the healing that I have, the Bible was a book full of condemnation and even the mention of Jesus' name caused me fear and made me want to run from the person talking about Him. I know I am not the only one who feels that way. As such, I have some things to share from my own personal life that I hope will help you if you have any doubts or questions about God's love for you.
I am here sharing my story because out of everything I have endured in my life, the attempts to destroy my connection to God were, in my opinion, the most (nearly) effective and painful things done to me. Because of that, I am passionate about helping others who have lived through difficult circumstances and are struggling to find a connection to God or who are trying to reestablish a connection to God after being traumatized.
I created this space because I want to show you that it's possible to come from a place of unhealed pain and a sense of inner darkness (created by trauma, addiction, combat, abuse in any form) to finally live in a place where you are safely able to cultivate a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the foundations of that relationship can be securely and comfortably established without interference from the outside world.
It is my hope that my work here for you will help you find restoration and wholeness from spiritual abuse (a very all-encompassing form of abuse that can include any type of assault on your body, mind and soul) that you may have endured or from any kind of dissolution of your connection to God.
So, THE BOOK OF ELIZABETH is the story of Elizabeth, me, a child of God who was saved by grace and who wants to share how it's possible to go from the darkest depths to live in the light of God.
I was physically born a child of 2 biological parents however I spent most of my years feeling like a spiritual orphan wandering this world feeling lost and alone. These were years I needed to endure in the way that I did in order to find exactly who I belong to.
I am reborn in Christ Jesus and it's the only life that matters to me now. I
I was physically born a child of 2 biological parents however I spent most of my years feeling like a spiritual orphan wandering this world feeling lost and alone. These were years I needed to endure in the way that I did in order to find exactly who I belong to.
I am reborn in Christ Jesus and it's the only life that matters to me now. I am a grateful, faithful, loving, child of God and I finally know exactly where I belong.
If we were introduced and you know me as Melanie and you are confused by the difference in my names, I changed my name to my middle name, Elizabeth, to reflect the change in myself since I have been reborn.
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Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
I am a survivor of spiritual abuse (which also includes abuse in churches and by people posing as "men of God") and mind control.
What defines me, however, is MY FAITH that I acquired from having SURVIVED and THRIVED in spite of what was done to me in an attempt to destroy my connection to God. It is my opinion that the worst thing done
I am a survivor of spiritual abuse (which also includes abuse in churches and by people posing as "men of God") and mind control.
What defines me, however, is MY FAITH that I acquired from having SURVIVED and THRIVED in spite of what was done to me in an attempt to destroy my connection to God. It is my opinion that the worst thing done to someone in an abusive situation is any attempt to destroy the spiritual nature of the child or adult.
I have created this website as a place to educate people on the effects of these kinds of abuses but I am taking it one step further and using my experiences to help other survivors of those things, including more general trauma, and I am telling my story of how I got free and how I began to heal from it all.
It is possible to heal, it is possible to change and it is possible to be found if you feel lost right now. You are not alone in this world, you never have been, and I can promise you that what I have to say here will be proof that from a place of hopelessness can be built a fortress stronger than anything you can imagine right now with a
It is possible to heal, it is possible to change and it is possible to be found if you feel lost right now. You are not alone in this world, you never have been, and I can promise you that what I have to say here will be proof that from a place of hopelessness can be built a fortress stronger than anything you can imagine right now with an immovable foundation you can depend on no matter what happens in your life.
It has been requested by newcomers that I share with you my personal experiences about what it was like at the beginning of my coming into full awareness that I was a survivor of serious trauma.
This page is a Q & A designed to simplify what those beginning stages looked like for me and what they might look like for you.