– My Story –
Téo van der Weele tells us about his life and his journey.
Video recordings of a Conference in 2015 – Teo’s Background
This is a Video on Teo's Background recorded in 2015, during a Conference in California. Be Blessed!
News from Téo – After the accident on March 3, 2019
I returned home on April 8, from a Rehab center 6 weeks later... What happened (short version, if you want to know a more detailed report, just ask me...) I was happy with my new tricycle. I still remember that I made a small turn to the left... I woke up about 25...
Chapter 14: Introducing the topic of abuse in Egypt
I was invited to Egypt 15 years ago. As they knew of my ministry with sexually abused people they asked me right away not to speak about incest. They told me: "that doesn´t happen here". The next year I got another invitation and they encouraged me to talk about...
My Story – Chapter 13: Do you want to help?…
Do you want to help? Some rules that might help you to be a help, rather than making an abuse survivor feeling even more miserable: 1. You might have sensed that there is something terribly gone wrong in a person's life in the past. Start with finding out what went...
My Story – Chapter 12: Challenges when working in The Culture of Abuse.
One of the challenges for people who are called to help people who suffer under various forms of abuse is: how to understand their words and actions. To understand the subconscious attitude towards helpers, as seen through the dysfunctional ´glasses´ of the counselee,...
My Story – Chapter 11
More on the Theology of BlessingWe have a choiceThe Body Remembers what the mind didn´t consciously register or has suppressed. God can clean our bodies without having to remember what happened. He can touch limbs that are stuck in an unaccomplished task of running...
My Story – Chapter 10
Learning to apply Powerful Peace Principles in the RC ChurchPowerful Peace (PP) focuses on Jesus.Never mind that many Protestants misunderstand the role of Mary in RC thinking, the key person in the salvation task is still Jesus. The fear that Mary would overtake the...
My Story – Chapter 9
Chapter 9: the effects of Powerful Peace In the Field of Trauma, there is one issue that is pivotal: safety. If you fail in that, you lose a client, they just won´t come back. This is especially true for people who have suffered deeply through abusive situations as...
My Story – Chapter 8
Part 2 Powerful Peace -Chapter 8: Priest seminary Leopoldinum in Kloster HeiligenkreuzBishop Klaus Küng and Prof. Dr. Karl Wallner, the Rector of the Benedict XVI Theological Institute in Heiligenkreuz, together set up a program for me, in order to be retooled for...
My Story – Chapter 7
Chapter 7: In the meantime in the Netherlands ... My whole missionary life I have been traveling for seven to ten days per month. It was like that in Thailand, but also later in the Netherlands. When working in Austria, my wife felt the need to pull out of being...
My Story – Chapter 6
Chapter 6: Returning to the Netherlands We had a great time in Open Doors. As I was in an organizational leadership position, my counseling ministry became less and less. I started to miss it. Talking to the Lord about this, it was as if He said: “Téo, you need to...
My Story – Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Missionaries .. Fast forward to 1963 I met in the Bible school “De Herdershof” in Heerde, my bride to be. After our wedding, Wil and I were accepted by the USA based mission organization the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C. & M. A.) as missionaries...
My Story – Chapter 4
Chapter 4: My first counseling talk When I was fourteen, I had my first counseling talk. Things were not well between my parents. Father would come home, tired and short-tempered. Mom would then run upstairs to their bedroom, crying. I decided this could not go on and...
My Story – Chapter 3
Chapter 3 A family reunited Life with our grandparents Mothers´ parents had found out where we were and after some time we were taken by two aunts to live with my grandparents. When my mother came free after two years she had to find work, so she redid old winter...
My Story – Chapter Two
A traumatized youth When I was 40, my Mom told me some details about her worries regarding me in the first months after my birth. She even wondered if I was blind and deaf. She said: “You just were laying in your baby-bed, but never ever cried. When you were...
My Story – Chapter one
I write my story in two parts: First I describe my paradigm change that happened in the early months of 2010. It tells how I could make the switch from Protestant to Roman Catholic at the age of seventy-three. Part two speaks about Powerful Peace as a healing concept,...
Powerful Peace Counseling in the Roman Catholic Church – A Lifetime Evangelical turns Roman Catholic
Welcome to my blog again. In the next three months, I would like to introduce you to a part of my life, I haven´t written about yet. What you might read could cause questions. Please feel free to ask me more at tjvdweele@gmail.com. Powerful Peace Counseling in the...