I’ve been on a few podcasts over the past few years talking about the impact of religious trauma in the therapy room. The most recent conversation I had with Jaime Simpson was personal. It was about her story but also my experience of her story. The new podcast is called
You are good on this Friday.
You are not broken.
Your heart is good, your body is good. You are loveable.
What even is Religious Trauma? ▫️Is it different to other trauma?▫️Why do you talk about it so much?▫️Can I heal from this type of trauma?▫️Do I have religious trauma? These are good questions I get regularly. Religious trauma, spiritual trauma, religious abuse, spiritual rupture are all terms that people may
Not a typo although weight would have done nicely. What is healing in the context of global trauma, how do we get to be ok when there is so much suffering? Working in the humanitarian space for so long, this question was always front of mind. I got to go
It’s funny isn’t it that when we start to think about, or focus on a particular thing, it seems to pop up everywhere. There’s science to this phenomenon that I’ll leave for another day, but it’s happened to me this last few weeks. I’ve been spending a of time on Substack recently.
I wrote on my Substack this week about the God of my imagination. I’d been reflecting on how I created God in my imagination. Which is, of course, what we all do as we learn about faith, as it becomes our framework, identity, worldview, a relationship with the divine. It’s
I was tidying up my Google drive recently and came across a Word doc outlining a short talk I gave at the Uniting Church women’s conference in 2018. If you’ve read my eBook, my story of leaving church and then God as I had always known God, you’ll remember me referring to this. I was stunned to be asked, as at the time it had been years since I’d been to church.
The documentaries keep coming. On cults, megachurch demise and people we may have once looked up to and admired, falling from grace. Or rather, tripping over themselves while clinging to tired old scripts and defending the indefensible. And of course, we know why this is, to admit there was wrongdoing
4 minute read The need to belong is so human and primal. Evolutionarily speaking, it meant life or death, we were interdependent, we needed each other for survival, food, warmth, protection. The need doesn’t go away because we live in a modern society, it’s a powerful driver of behaviour and
