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Faith That Wasn’t Safe: Understanding Your Childhood Body and Brain

High-control, fear-based religious environments leave deep marks on a child’s development. Survivors often carry those marks into adulthood as anxiety, shame, confusion, and a deep mistrust of themselves—not because they are broken, but because their systems were shaped in ways no child should have to endure. What felt “normal” back then may finally make sense when y...


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Masking for Jesus: When Neurodivergent Kids Grow Up In Fundamentalism

Clarifying Note: Children who were raised in fundamentalist Christian environments - whether neurodivergent or not - faced similar teachings, pressures, and developmental disruptions. The distinction is not in what they experienced, but in how their nervous systems interpreted and responded to those experiences. Neurodivergent children frequently...


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Finding Words of Freedom: Six Days of Guided Reflection for Healing from Religious Trauma

There comes a point in many of our stories when the faith we were handed stops feeling like home. Maybe it happened slowly—small comments, subtle control, the quiet erosion of your sense of self. Or maybe it was one moment that split your world open.

Either way, the impact lingers. In your body. In your relationships. In the way you move through the wo...


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Press On: The fatal expectation of female faithfulness.

There’s a phrase I heard all my life in the faith spaces I grew up in: press on. Songs lyricized the concept. “Press on! “ was spoken as an admonition. It was offered as encouragement, but it functioned as expectation. A command. A cultural script. A spiritualized demand that people keep going no matter what their bodies, minds, or spirits were trying to tel...


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The Mystery Is the System: Religious Trauma Through the Lens of "Wake Up Dead Man”

There’s a particular ache that comes when the place meant to keep you safe becomes the place that wounds you. Religious trauma is not only about doctrine gone wrong; it’s about the slow erosion of trust, the shrinking of autonomy, and the way authority can be wielded to silence and shame. The new Benoit Blanc mystery Wake Up Dead Man over on Netflix stages a...


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