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Indoctrination Part 2: When Gender Roles Become Gospel
Religious indoctrination often disguises gender roles as biblical truth, framing submission, silence, and self-sacrifice as spiritual virtues. This post unpacks how high-control religious systems shape ideas of biblical womanhood, Christian manhood, BIPOC identity, and queerness, and what healing can look like when you begin to question the script.
Indoctrination: How Control Is Baked Into the System
Indoctrination is often invisible while you're inside it—only afterward do you start to see how deeply it shaped your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. This post explores how control gets baked into religious systems and how spiritual abuse and religious trauma can show up through teachings masked as truth.
Was It Spiritual Abuse? How to Recognize Religious Trauma and Begin to Heal
If you’ve ever asked “Was it spiritual abuse?”— you’re not alone. This post explores how religious trauma shows up, why it’s not just “church hurt,” and how healing can begin.
Leaving the LDS Church: Navigating Grief, Guilt, and Religious Trauma
Leaving the LDS Church can feel like losing your world. This post explores the grief, guilt, and religious trauma of faith transition, and how therapy can support healing.
Jesus, the Restorer of Dignity: A Healing Reflection for Faith Deconstruction and Religious Trauma
The story of Jesus and the woman at the well reveals a radical kind of compassion— one that sees, stays, and restores dignity. For those healing from religious trauma, this story offers surprising hope.
Easter After Evangelicalism: Holding Grief and Beauty Following Religious Trauma
Easter can stir both tenderness and grief for those healing from religious trauma. This post explores what it means to honor loss, reclaim joy, and rediscover resurrection outside the walls of high-control religion.
Healing from Religious Trauma: How Lament Can Lead to Hope
Discover how the lenten season, lament, grief, and spiritual reflection can support healing from religious trauma and spiritual abuse. A trauma therapist shares insight on reclaiming what’s sacred and finding hope after leaving or reimagining faith.