After covering signs and symptoms of spiritual trauma in Part 1, we cover next steps: deconstructing, healing, and transforming. No matter where you are in your journey, this conversation will provide hope and affirmation.
Resources recommended:
Traumatized by Religious Abuse: Discover the Cultures and Systems of Religious Abuse and Reclaim Your Personal Power. Baker, Connie (2019)
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation. Bolz-Weber, Nadia (2019)
How We Sleep at Night. Cunningham, Sara (2014)
Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump. Denker, Angela (2019)
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity. Finch, Jamie Lee (2019)
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs. Jeffs, Rachel (2017)
HERETIC: A memoir. Kadlec, Jeanna (2022) Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper, Megan (2019)
Leaving the Fold: A guide for former fundamentalists and others leaving their religion. Winell, Marlene (1993)
You can contact Rachel at www.collaborative-ct.com.
The Secular Therapy Project is the name of the organization that includes secular therapists - their website is a great resource for finding a therapist, and it has other information on there as well: https://www.seculartherapy.org/.