This introductory course is designed to broaden your understanding of religious trauma, spiritual abuse and painful experiences in high-demand church or faith settings.
What I Wish my Therapist knew about Religious Trauma includes downloadable resources, eBook “The Sentimental Non-Believer. On Loving & Leaving God” as well as the stories of others with lived experience.
We start to have doubts and questions but want to stay and try and change it as an insider. We feel broken when we realise this isn’t possible. So many of us limp away devastated and feeling very alone, shamed and told we’re the problem. With the right support we recover and rebuild.
I’m so grateful to have had that support in the end after many years of trying to figure it out by myself. Reach out if you need that support. It’s not an easy journey.
We cycle through phases of grief and healing when we’ve experienced religious and spiritual trauma.Easter brings us face-to-face with where we are in that cycle and if we’re paying attention, our bodies will tell us what we need next
What does the word resurrection mean to you? Is it loaded or can you reclaim it? What have you come alive to? Leaving church and / or God is often one of the most painful things we can go through. But there is life, freedom and relief to be found
You are good on this Friday.
You are not broken.
Your heart is good, your body is good. You are loveable.
Trauma work is grief work. I had a lovely, unexpected 24hrs with my daughter last week. She was in town briefly for work and the stars aligned so I could spend that time with her chatting, cooking and watching TV. We watched Love on the Spectrum (how gorgeous) and the new Bridget
I joked last week on my Instagram stories that I’ve long had a therapist crush* on Canadian Psychologist, Dr Hillary McBride, whose new book, Holy Hurt is coming out soon. Hillary was my inspiration for becoming a therapist. Back in the days when she co-hosted The Liturgist’s Podcast, I was working in
The first time I heard the beautiful quote below was OnBeing Podcast, which was a lifeline for me, like church really, when I could no longer go. Host Krista Tippet often referred to Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke. He writes, “I want to beg you, to be patient toward all
It’s been five years, this month, since Covid. I remember where I was when we started to hear about this virus that seemed to be spreading quickly. I was working in the humanitarian sector at the time, and my body tensed over lunch with our team in Indonesia as they told me
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If you’re a therapist who wants to know where to start with Religious Trauma, my Intro Course will help.