On The Intersection of Faith Deconstruction & Religious Trauma

From this month’s blog by CTRR Practitioner Kim June Johnson:

“The belief systems I’d acquired within religion were the traumatic events. But the impacts of those belief systems only revealed themselves once I attempted to cope and find safety outside of the system. 

This is one of the complexities of religious trauma. And because belief systems are stored in the unconscious—especially when they’re formed early in life—they stay hidden until we do the work of making them conscious. Many of us leaving toxic religious environments experience something I call ‘flip-side negative core beliefs’.”

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