Can You Heal Religious Trauma Without Losing Your Faith?
For many people, faith begins as a source of belonging and community. It can offer guidance, purpose, and a sense of belonging to something bigger and greater than yourself. Faith can provide comfort through the hardest seasons and something that can steady you.
Purity Culture Wasn’t Pure: Healing the Shame That Has Never Been Yours
If you’ve grown up in any kind of organized religion, there’s always a moment with the dreaded topic of sex or intimacy comes up as a teenager. You’re told that sex is bad, wanting it is bad, and listening to your earthly or bodily desires is bad. You were taught to wait, to deny yourself, and more importantly, to watch yourself.