Someone else in our group says that incest survivors have spiritual issues as well as psychological ones. Answer First of all, good for you for facing the past and healing from it. That is an act of courage, one which many people avoid out of fear. Many incest survivors were raised within a religious context and were taught to believe in an all-loving God. Such thoughts and feelings can obviously have a devastating effect throughout life.
Spiritual issues can also arise if the perpetrator of the abuse was male.
Given that most of us are raised with a presentation of God as male, the experience of abuse by a male can result in a God whom one may be afraid of approaching. In other words, the image of the abuser gets in the way of the survivor's image of God. Finally, if you were abused by an actual member of the clergy, obviously this can give raise to confusion and anger. The survivor can again feel betrayed not only by the clergy person but by the religion standing behind that person and by the God whom that person supposedly represented. None of these issues are easy.