Religious Trauma & Cult Recovery Blog

The holidays can be a dysregulating time, especially if you’ve experienced trauma. A lot of things could be impacting this dysregulation:

• Disruption in your routine 

• Traveling

• Attend group events that you don’t regularly attend (religious services, parties, large family gatherings)

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Religious trauma is a specific kind of trauma that happens within religious or spiritual spaces. That means religious spaces, rituals, beliefs, members, and leaders can all be the perpetrators of trauma. You can read more about what defines religious trauma here. Religious trauma is especially hard ...

Purity Culture is a White, Evangelical Christian American phenomenon that was at its peak in the 1990s. Purity Culture strongly emphasized remaining pure by not engaging in impure sexual activity- any sexual activity outside of heterosexual Christian marriages.

Some of the media, organizations, and...

No matter where you are in the deconstruction process, whether that be just beginning to question the church’s teachings or years away from the group’s control, it can be so destabilizing to actually leave a toxic group. After all, there are often many reasons why people identify with a religion and...

Let’s talk about deconstruction and what the heck that word actually means. This word is probably very familiar to you if you’ve been in the religious trauma world. We like to think of deconstruction as the slow “unbuilding” brick-by-brick of how you previously knew the world. If you have spent any ...

Religious trauma is a type of psychological trauma that can occur as a result of negative experiences within your religious community or as a result of a conflict between your personal beliefs and the teachings of your religion. This type of trauma can have serious consequences on your mental health...