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576									<h2><strong>Freeing the Coils:</strong></h2><h2><em>One survivor&#8217;s journey from abuse to healing and empowerment.</em></h2>								</div>
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584									<h4><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-recalc-dims="1" class="wp-image-1943 size-medium alignleft" style="text-align: center;" title="Snake is an unkind epithet. I use it because in cyberspace cold actors are like snakes." src="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=300%2C265&#038;ssl=1" alt="St Augustine's Sin - Why child abuse bedevils Christianity" width="300" height="265" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?w=2261&amp;ssl=1 2261w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=1024%2C903&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=768%2C677&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=1536%2C1355&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?resize=2048%2C1806&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Book-Covers.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">About the Author</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Joe Baker was raised a Roman Catholic by a devout Irish mother.  He served as altar boy and chorister while attending faith schools in Ireland and England, where he encountered psychological and physical abuse.  Later in life he was influenced by his atheist father, who had been alienated by the church when Joe was six years old.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"> For several years he worked as a technical author, compiling instruction guides and manuals.  </span><span style="color: #000000;">In the course of his career he had many articles published and in 2021 he released his first book.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">With the Vatican decrying critics of the church as “Friends of the Devil”, he thought back to his schooldays.  In his book he recalls the grovelling prayers of self-censure and remorse prescribed by St Augustine, a penitential ritual still practised in some British schools.  Faith school i</span><span style="color: #000000;">nfants, below the age of criminal responsibility, are </span><span style="color: #000000;">marked sinful and spend lesson time chastising themselves for wrongdoings.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Weighing his own religious background, t</span><span style="color: #000000;">he author </span><span style="color: #000000;">researches the negative influence of these dark mantras and makes a surprising discovery.  He explores the possibility that </span><span style="color: #000000;">infant </span><span style="color: #000000;">stigmatism </span><span style="color: #000000;">and Christian</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #000000;">teaching on sinfulness </span><span style="color: #000000;">might play a role in child abuse and adult mental well-being.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Contributor Lorna Graham, a schoolteacher for 26 years, brings the classroom to life, depicting her struggle to deliver a critically conscious, dialogic education to her pupils.</span></p>								</div>
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595									<p><img decoding="async" data-recalc-dims="1" class="alignright wp-image-289 size-medium" title="Joe Baker endured 16 years of emotional abuse.  He created this website to help others avoid pain." src="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Joe-bust-e1686776721474-300x289.png?resize=300%2C289&#038;ssl=1" alt="Writer, Joe Baker, created this website in 2022, to help others avoid his pain and suffering." width="300" height="289" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Joe-bust-e1686776721474.png?resize=300%2C289&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Joe-bust-e1686776721474.png?w=642&amp;ssl=1 642w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p><h4><span style="color: #000000;">Joe Baker in Private</span></h4><p><span style="color: #000000;">Joe Baker&#8217;s life has been an intriguing journey.  He graduated from Borough Polytechnic, now known as London South Bank University, with a BSc in mechanical engineering.  While pursuing a career in freelance design, Joe pursued post-graduate studies in psychology, sociology, and counselling.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">In 1979, he took a bold step and founded a business specialising in designing and building access security systems.  The company flourished, earning several world patents in the process.</span></p><h5><span style="color: #000000;">Life Change</span></h5><p><span style="color: #000000;">Tragedy struck in 2002 when Joe&#8217;s beloved wife, his teenage sweetheart, passed away suddenly.  To add to his changing circumstances, his two lovely daughters married and ventured off to start their own families.  Joe decided to sell his company and retire, to embrace a new chapter of life.  (Ironically, the business thrived after his departure, much to his bemusement.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Retirement offered Joe the opportunity to indulge his passions, and he found new success in writing.  He revels in our lovely countryside, enjoys sailing, dancing, choral singing, playing music, and honing his culinary skills.  Notably, his cooking has garnered no complaints—thankfully, not because no one survived his toothy adventures!</span></p>								</div>
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599									<p><img decoding="async" data-recalc-dims="1" class="alignleft wp-image-171" style="text-align: center;" title="Snake is an unkind epithet. I use it because in cyberspace cold actors are like snakes." src="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337-159x300.png?resize=199%2C376&#038;ssl=1" alt="Snake is an unkind epithet. I use it because in cyberspace cold actors are like snakes." width="199" height="376" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?resize=159%2C300&amp;ssl=1 159w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?resize=544%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 544w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?resize=816%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 816w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?resize=1088%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1088w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=199%2C376&amp;ssl=1 398w, https://i0.wp.com/joebaker.me.uk/joebaker/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Venus-silhouette-new-e1661891971337.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=199%2C376&amp;ssl=1 597w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" /></p><h4> </h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-align: center;">E</span><span style="text-align: center;">veryone is entitled to be treated with courtesy and respect by others, regardless of their situation.  Civility is intrinsic to a civilised society.</span></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-we
599ight ); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: center;">From childhood we are taught to be &#8216;agreeable&#8217;</span><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );"> and many of us are conditioned to feel culpable</span></span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;">.  This mind-set makes one potentially open to abuse.  </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );">Soft-hearted people seem particularly vulnerable</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: center;">.  Perhaps because they expect to see similar</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"> warmth in everyone else; but that&#8217;s naïve</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: center;">.  </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>								</div>
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