Podcasts
Podcasts
I love chatting with people on their podcasts and supporting research into Religious Trauma, especially as it applies to Australia & New Zealand. If you’d like to get in touch for a conversation you can do that here.
Podcast Chats
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 109 - From Saviour Complex to Healthy Boundaries with Jane Kennedy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Jeremy is joined this week by Australian therapist Jane Kennedy, who shares her journey from church ministry and humanitarian work into private practice specializing in religious trauma, exploring how burnout, deconstruction, and the “white savior” mindset shaped her career shift. She and Jeremy discuss the cultural differences and surprising similarities in religious harm between Australia, New Zealand, and North America, as well as the challenges of finding trained professionals in this niche. Jane also talks about co-founding the Religious Trauma Collective for Australia and New Zealand, advocating for awareness, resources, and community while actively avoiding recreating high-control dynamics.
The Cost Of Witnessing
Don't F*ck the Flock
Episode Description
We often talk about survivors, and rightly so, but rarely do we speak of the cost carried by those who bore witness. Those who saw glimpses of harm but didn’t know what to do. Who were silenced, dismissed, or spiritually gaslit when they raised concerns.
The cost of witnessing isn’t just what someone saw, it’s what they couldn’t unsee.
Some witnesses carry secrets they were never meant to hold. Others become complicit in systems that punish truth-telling. Many absorbed a kind of secondary trauma, grief, confusion, and helplessness. Over time, their trust in leaders, and sometimes even in their own perceptions, eroded.
Witnessing can fracture faith. It can rupture community. It can leave people standing in that lonely middle ground between silence and action.
That’s why I’m so grateful to have this conversation with one of my own witnesses , so I can now bear witness to her witnessing.
Today’s episode is the first time I’ve really had space to think about what it’s been like for the witnesses around my story. And so, I’m honoured to welcome someone who was part of it from the very beginning.
The Religious Trauma Collective: understanding faith, harm and healing (Jane Kennedy, Sam Sellers & Elise Heerde)
Spiritual Misfits Podcast
Episode Description
The conversation revolves around the Religious Trauma Collective, a group formed by Jane Kennedy, Samantha Sellers and Elise Heerde. They discuss the importance of recognising and addressing religious trauma, the context of this issue in Australia and New Zealand, and the differences between healthy and unhealthy religious environments. The Collective aims to provide resources, support, and community for those affected by religious trauma. In this conversation, the group explore the complexities of community, the importance of diversity in faith spaces, and the nuances of navigating online influences and deconstruction. They discuss the journey of healing from religious trauma, the balance between public and private healing, and the significance of therapy in this space.
The Pipelines - "Jane Kennedy Must Save the World" to "She Doesn't Actually"
Unchurchable
Episode Description
In this episode of “The Pipelines” series, we meet Jane Kennedy. While she is now a religious trauma therapist and co-founder of the Religious Trauma Collective in Australia (which compiles resources and religious trauma-informed therapists for those of us who are recovering), she was once a youth leader and church planter.
Bridging the Gap - The Religious Trauma Collective
Beyond the Surface
Episode Description
Join us in this enlightening episode of Beyond the Surface as we explore the multifaceted topic of religious trauma in Australia and New Zealand.
Jane Kennedy on voice, authenticity and gender
In the Shift
Episode Description
Episode 90: This episode is a follow-up to our previous episode (89) about navigating relationships during deconstruction. We chat to Sydney based Counsellor, Jane Kennedy on voice, authenticity and gender.
The Sentimental Non-Believer
Beyond the Surface
Episode Description
This is Jane’s Story.
Who is Jane?
Jane Kennedy is a Sydney-based Counsellor. Jane has lived experience of religious trauma and is committed supporting people as they leave the church and/or faith.
