Healing from Religious Trauma
The idea that we must follow what our family reaches us in terms of religious expectations can leave us feeling damned, hurt, confused, and even in denial of who we are. These feelings can cause very real complications in self-actualization, where even in our efforts to act in ways that are authentic to our sense of self we can still feel like we’re doing something “wrong,” all because it goes against what our religious upbringing has taught us. By radically accepting the hurt we experienced growing up, these memories can be reinvented and reframed to consider our intersecting identities, rather than the version of ourselves that our religious trauma can accept.