Healing from Trauma

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Empower recently facilitated a training for the staff of Sonrise Ministries in Jinga, Uganda. Sonrise started as a home for orphan babies in 2009. It has since grown into a Baby Village, a Children’s Village, a Home for street girls, and three community schools.  Running all these ministry operations is a work of love for … Read more

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For years, Empower Minister Linda Ikeda, RN MFT, has traveled to Malawi, often accompanied by Empower Minister Missionary Sue Kerrigan, RN, bringing two seminars Linda developed: Healing from Trauma, and Created to Belong. The first is to help people suffering from trauma to find healing. The second is for caregivers of those who are traumatized, … Read more

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Linda Ikeda, Empower’s director of Created to Belong, and creator of our Healing from Trauma and Created to Belong seminars, recently returned from her trip to Rwanda and Malawi. Once again, the material on trauma, attachment and women’s health was enthusiastically received. Here is her report. By Linda Ikeda Reflecting on a trip like this … Read more

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 Sue Kerrigan and Jeanette Wheeler recently returned from a two week trip to Malawi, where they taught in two locations: Nkhata Bay and Mulanje. The trip began with four days in Nkhata Bay, where Sue and Jeanette taught Created to Belong, Healing from Trauma, and our new Women’s Health Seminar, which covers a wide range … Read more

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Our ministry comes alongside leaders to help combat the root causes of abuse, abandonment and injustice. One of the important ways we do that is through our teaching on trauma. Two seminars, Created to Belong & Healing from Trauma, both address this issue, helping both the traumatized and their caregivers. Created by Linda Ikeda, LMFC … Read more

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Linda Ikeda and Sue Kerrigan are back in Malawi this week, seeing first-hand the effectiveness our “train the trainers” model. Linda reports that she and Sue, along with new partner Ann Lo, have visited ten villages in two days, where graduates of the Created to Belong and Healing from Trauma workshops have trained others. The … Read more