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
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
Many of you know I work with a lot of people recovering from harm done in religious spaces. From high control groups to cults and rebuilding identity, it’s a big topic. I’ve spoken in many places about my own story too. I’m not anti-God, anti-church or anti-religion however these are
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June is PRIDE month 🌈 ❤️ I’m not great at remembering things like International Day of…(there seems to be so many!), or being on theme in my social media with trending #hashtags, I wish I was better at that. But I am aware that June is PRIDE month! Pride is for celebrating and making queer love
Like all trauma, religious trauma lives in our bodies. And like all trauma, we need bodily ways to process it. When you graze your knee, your body knows how to heal. When you’ve experienced trauma, your body knows how to heal. But for anyone who has spent time in spaces
10 min read There are some big, heavy themes in this post. Please come back to it later if it’s too much for you. I write to process. Often I delete or save things in draft, but the act of committing to sentences helps me figure out how I feel
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
Queer communion & the imprint of the divine. It’s PRIDE month and I’m so grateful for the many glorious queer people in my world. LGBTQIA+ people have a particular, and from what I understand, exquisitely painful experience of being othered by Christians. I am devastated that my own toxic theology
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