An educational publication on specific topics related to religious harm recovery such as purity culture, religious trauma, and coercive control.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | When you’re exposed to chronic, fear-based messages throughout childhood, it can influence how you learn to feel safe, connect to other people, and make sense of who you are. In this Digest, we’ll look at 6 areas of childhood development that are often negatively impacted by a high-control religious upbringing.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | Hyper-competence might look like a strength, but it can also be a trauma response. In this digest, I take a closer look at how high-control religion wires you for over-performance and how to start releasing the internal pressure that often comes with it.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | Many people leave purity culture feeling disconnected from their bodies, but what’s often labeled “sexual dysfunction” may actually be your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do in a high-control system. This Digest offers a more clinically-sound way to understand what’s happening in your body.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | This Digest focuses on Christianity’s martyr obsession and how it’s used as tool of coercive control to more deeply indoctrinate people into a specific system of beliefs. It also covers the lingering impact even after leaving a high-control religion.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | If you’ve ever heard someone insist they’re “spiritual, not religious” while living inside a rigid belief system, this Digest is for you. I’m looking at how high-control groups rework language, why that matters, and how different types of religious spaces influence our spirituality and connection to others.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | In this issue, you’ll get a clearer picture of what emotionally immature religious parents can look like, including six common “types” and the nuances between them. I also walk through how these dynamics may have impacted you as a child, and the ways they can keep showing up in your relationship with your parent now that you’re an adult.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | This newsletter explores how the concept of “spiritual warfare” can actually serve as a form of psychological abuse, reinterpreting everyday emotions and experiences as spiritual threats. It also looks at how this type of manipulation impacts your sense of reality, your emotional world, and your personal agency.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | Have you ever felt pressured to meet your partner’s needs at the expense of your own desires? If so, it’s worth pausing and asking where that pressure came from. This post unpacks the “never say no” script from purity culture, how it distorts consent and connection, and what it can look like to rebuild a sexual ethic rooted in choice instead of obligation.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | Many of us grew up in churches that functioned like a cult, even though the pastors didn’t fit the stereotypical “cult leader” mold. In this newsletter, I explore what happens when the cult leader role gets projected onto god, and how an internalized “voice of god” can keep people compliant long after they leave.
The Religious Harm Recovery Digest | High-control religions often go beyond controlling your behavior to actually severing your connection to your own Self. Without that inner reference point, reclaiming personal agency won’t really be accessible. In this Digest, I walk through how this disconnect happens, why it looks different depending on your body or cultural context, and what it takes to start sensing your wants and needs again.