Childhood Indoctrination Articles
Religious Upbringing, attachment wounds & Abusive or neglectful Parenting practices
Attachment Insecurity & Emotionally Neglectful Religious Parents
In my last post, I talked about how parents influenced by religious indoctrination often lean towards authoritarian parenting styles, which can lead their children to develop insecure attachment patterns. Read it here: How Authoritarian Parenting Creates an Insecure Attachment Style This week, we’re looking at another way indoctrinated parents tend to show up: emotionally neglectful…
How Authoritarian Parenting Creates an Insecure Attachment Style
Recognizing how religion negatively impacted my life was the first step in my religious harm recovery journey. For many, recognizing the significant impact harmful religious teachings have had on all areas of our lives can feel overwhelming. However, the second step can feel even more overwhelming — coming to terms with all the ways this…
Why Your Religious Upbringing Left You Feeling Starved For Love
I definitely entered my teen and young adult years feeling “starved for love,” but I didn’t come to understand this about myself until recently. As someone who prided myself on being fiercely independent, even as a teenager, the idea that I “needed” anything (or anyone) caused me to bristle. But what I’ve come to realize…
4 Ways Children are Wounded by Authoritarian Parenting
I was raised in fundamentalist evangelical christianity, which is a religious cult. And a big part of the indoctrination and control process of most religious cults is to influence parenting practices. This is strategic. You see, if the cult can influence how children are raised, then they will have a never-ending source of “true believers”…