Good news! All the lights are green for the purchase of De Hoeve! Read the latest status and what is still needed here.
The Inner Garden aims to offer help to survivors of satanic ritual abuse (s.r.m), by offering these people a safe home, helping them build a healthy social network and providing them with the support they need. All this in a context of equality, sincerity and reliability. In addition, knowledge and expertise on CDIS developed and work is being done to raise awareness across the breadth of society around the existence of s.r.m. and CDIS.
A crucial part of The Inner Garden is a (residential) opportunity with space for living, working and recreation.
"He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release for the captives, and for those who were bound, opening of the prison."
Isaiah 61:1
Friends of Esthers
From Friends of Esthers a core team has been formed to work on housing survivors and the further development (and dissemination) of knowledge and expertise. To this end, they have a residential farmhouse in mind. The members of the core team are motivated and passionate, have knowledge, experience and expertise in house and have made a long-term and unconditional commitment to this.
I myself will go out before you, the uneven I will straighten, bronze doors I will break open, and iron bolts broken. And I will give you treasures that are in darkness, hidden riches, that you may know that I am YHWH. ... - Isaiah 45:2-3
Help for survivors
The primary task envisaged by the core team is to help survivors of s.r.m the opportunity to leave the cult and build an independent life without cult dependence. Experience has shown that three pillars are essential for this: a safe environment (no infiltration by cult), a support network of dedicated friends who know about CDIS and organised abuse and intensive trauma treatment. The first priority here is for survivors experiencing current, ongoing ritual abuse (or strong suspicion thereof). In many cases, a longer period of stay will be required, preceded and/or followed by a period of outpatient (after)treatment.
Multidisciplinary treatment
Safety
Providing safety for survivors also means actively building a people-centred, confidential and trusted environment where practitioners and committed people prove themselves to be trustworthy people. They do not appear to lie and torture, but keep their appointments, are genuinely interested, treat as equals and are there when needed. This is essential for survivors.
Day care
For day care, families, residents, volunteers and people from the surrounding area are used. The residential facility also offers opportunities for this, such as (vegetable) gardening, animal care or performing simple work. At the same time, efforts are under way to build a network of friends around the survivor.
"Bringing light and recovery to the darkness of satanic ritual abuse, by helping survivors exit the cult and help recover, through expertise on CDIS and satanic ritual abuse further and by making society aware of this great evil taking place beneath the surface."
Satanic ritual abuse and CDIS
S.r.m takes place in networks. A feature of these networks is that members imprison each other in a complex set of strong hierarchy and control, fear, deception, (sexual) violence, emotional and physical torture, (sacrificial) rituals, abuse of loyalty and strong dependency relationships. These phenomena occur intersecting and back and forth in each hierarchical layer, such that captivity arises for each member to varying degrees. Another term for the totality of these networks is 'the cult'.
Survivors of s.r.m who grew up in the cult from childhood develop DIS, a dissociative identity disorder. In short, this means that to survive gruesome and repeated torture, the personality splits into several parts. We speak of CDIS (complex DIS) if torture was deliberately used to create DIS. For more explanation, see the 'basic information on satanic ritual abuse' at Lichtoplevens.co.uk
More information
More information on this topic can be found on the following websites:
Contributions:
Transfers can be made via account number NL87INGB0006397253 t.n.v. Stichting 4Justice (ANBI), mentioning the Inner Garden, or go to our donation page for more information.
Good news! All the lights for the purchase of the proposed 'Hoeve' are green! There has been a last-minute breakthrough. A special story about which we would like to inform you in detail in the May newsletter. We are very grateful to God and all the generous donors that after some very exciting months the Hoeve can be realised. Donations are still needed to furnish the shelter and to convert the barn into, among other things, rooms for offices and weekend shelters.
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