We help women claim an identity beyond sexual harm survivor.
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Reclamation Ministry
About us
Reclamation Ministry is a nonprofit in Cleveland, Ohio with a mission to cultivate a brave space for all women who have experienced sexual harm.
Trauma disrupts, disintegrates, and severs our sense of self. We believe women need a space for hope and an empowered, embodied, and free life.
We support women as they take their next step toward healing and wholeness within a faith-forward community.
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Who we serve
Women who have experienced an unexpected, unwelcome twist to their story through sexual harm.
- You believe your past doesn’t define you and that it’s actually shaping you.
- You’re willing to be honest about your story and know the story doesn’t end here.
- You’re willing to pursue healing within a safe community.
- You know deep healing requires a soul transformation.
- You want to change unhealthy patterns that hinder your ambitions and your imagination for a brighter future.
- You know you can’t do this journey alone; isolation is creating a bigger chasm to recovery.
- You view group support as communal and constructive rather than bonding over trauma, you’re interested in building connections through healing
We believe in healing through community and story within a faith-based model.
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Support Meetings
We provide women with bi-weekly support groups at a secure location during the spring, summer and fall seasons.
We use multimedia, educational resources to train volunteer leaders and to empower women.
Education
We believe that leadership requires discipleship. We believe true healing is intrinsically tied to inviting other women into healing and wholeness.
Leadership Community
Empowering women with holistic and healing practices as well as connecting them to outside, professional resources when needed.
Healing
What makes us unique
We are a faith based, women led support group, designed to help women heal from various forms of sexual abuse. The nature of these forms of abuse, is that they make the person enduring them, feel alone. We want women to heal, in a community, where isolation crumbles and relationships can flourish.
A Note from the Founder - EMily nickel
A Place To Heal
Like others, my life has been shaped by highs and lows. The obvious “low” was my recurring experience in childhood with sexual harm. It took almost two and a half decades of my life for me to make sense of the harm that was done to my body and my brain and my soul.
The effects of that harm were not simply extensive–they were all-consuming, from an unhealthy identity to trigger responses that made me feel emotionally unreliable as a spouse, to name a few.
What finally broke through the darkness of that confusion was confiding in my sister, a witness, an advocate, and a fellow pilgrim on this journey.
There, my pain was met by two sources even greater than the presence of my trauma: sisterhood and God.
It was sisterhood that the lies of isolation were dismantled. It was sisterhood that all the disparate pieces of my being began to be knit back together.
During that season, I knew that I would simply have to create something when the time was right. That season came in in when I decided to leave my full-time job as a teacher.
Reclamation Ministry as a nonprofit was born.
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Reclamation Ministry exists thanks to our generous donors.
If you are interested in giving, please feel free to checkout more on our giving page, and our donation portal from Zeffy.
The thief comes only to kill, steal and destroy, but I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
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