Religious Trauma Resources

Religious Trauma Resources “Religious Trauma Syndrome is the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination.” – Marlene Winell, Leaving the Fold   Articles...
Searching for Truth

Searching for Truth

Never before have humans been able to spew our immediate thoughts out into the world with such urgency, precision and speed. We stake a claim in a particular camp of opinion and target hate and vitriol towards those who disagree. But, how often do we think deeply about how we know what we know

Engaging Our Creativity

Engaging Our Creativity

Engaging Our Creativity “The primary creative act is the living of our daily lives, making it a work of art.”  – Christine Paintner We often think of creativity as the private domain of artists, dancers, musicians or writers, each possessing special and unique...

Healing is Messy!

In this episode I am joined by three friends who have spent 12 weeks talking about this material and exploring how we might conceive of healing in the aftermath of religious trauma. One thing is for sure….healing is MESSY!

Trauma & the Artistic Impulse

Many people who have come out of fundamentalist/evangelical trauma struggle with what to do with their creative side, with many describing a kind of artistic brokenness. In this episode, my guests and I talk about what happens to the creative/artistic impulse in white, fundamentalist spaces and how do we do better at sitting with suffering.