Most Recent Articles
Religious Trauma:
Although often an ideal to strive for in religious communities, "Christ-like" behavior can manifest as a religious trauma fawn response to help folks survive the pressure of high control settings.
Religious patriarchy harms men too, albeit in different ways than it harms women and sexual minorities. This article discusses the ways men are also harmed.
This article explores 6 of the most common ways religious trauma can show up in your body.
Purity Culture
Many religions claim that remaining "pure" before marriage ensures marital success; however, there can be many downsides to purity culture marriages.
This article explores how purity culture harms men emotionally, culturally, relationally, sexually, and psychologically, emphasizing the shared impact on all people.
Childhood Indoctrination:
This post explores how authoritarian religious upbringings and emotional neglect can leave adults feeling "love starved," impacting self-worth, relationships, and emotional expression.
Explore how authoritarian parenting in high control religions inflicts lasting emotional wounds on children, including issues like people-pleasing, emotional neglect, and damaged self-worth.
Coercive Control:
This article gives you this in's and out's of religious indoctrination, cult programming, and religious trauma & provides 5 steps to start recovering.
This article explores the four stages of anger that many people experience as they identify patterns of coercive control in their former religion and begin the recovery process.
This article looks at the subtle ways spiritual abuse is used as a form of coercive control within religious groups.
Post-Religion Growth
Spiritual bypassing shows up in many religious communities. This article explores common types of spiritual bypassing and provides healthier alternatives.
