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  • Grief After Leaving Church: Missing What You Lost

    Last night, someone in a recovery meeting said they missed being in church. It touched something tender in me, and I realized that underneath the triggers, what I’ve been feeling is grief.

    October 28, 2026

  • What Survives the Fire

    Here is what I learned about trust, blind faith, and finding the people still standing after the fire, plus an exercise to help you rebuild.

    October 13, 2026

  • Uncovering the Schema Beneath the Feelings

    After my adopted father died, praying and forgiveness couldn’t quiet my anxiety. Seeing the schema beneath the emotions finally did. This is what a schema is, how it shaped my life, and what has helped.

    October 5, 2026

  • Getting Unhooked: What The Happiness Trap Is Teaching Me About Religious Trauma

    For years, I was taught that my emotions were God’s alarm system, proof that something was wrong with me. Reading The Happiness Trap, I’m learning to see them differently: as messengers, not verdicts. Here’s what that shift is teaching me, plus a simple practice you can try. If your blog limits the length, here’s a…

    September 29, 2026

  • Living Forward

    After a lifetime of learning not to trust anything, a chronic pain book by an unlikely trio — Sarno, Schubiner, and Maté — became an unexpected life preserver. A reflection on undertows, rip currents, and learning to stop fighting the water long enough to float.

    September 18, 2026

  • Religious Trauma Survivors: The Room Has No Place to Put It

    What happens when religious trauma survivors bring their pain into church — and the room, or the person across from them, doesn’t know where to put it.

    September 3, 2026

  • Come As You Are

    “The ancient practice of visio divina, or sacred seeing, invites us to look deeply at a word, a symbol, or a scene, allowing it to penetrate our senses and spirit, then listening for what it might reveal to us.” This is a quote from a book I started reading recently by Chad Jarnagin, The Congruent…

    August 16, 2026

  • Religious Trauma and Self-Blame: Is It Me, or Is It Toxic Religion?

    A personal look at how religious trauma and self-blame form long before the church pew — and how toxic doctrine can confirm the fears a child already learned to carry.

    August 7, 2026

  • Signs of a Toxic Religious System (And What Real Belonging Looks Like)

    When the same wreck keeps happening — the same fear, the same control, the same shunning — the problem isn’t the individual driver anymore. Here are the signs of a toxic religious system, and what it actually feels like to belong somewhere real.

    July 28, 2026

  • On Belonging Without a Baseline

    Some people don’t lose belonging — they never had a baseline for it to begin with. This is a reflection on what that absence feels like, why it isn’t a flaw, and what it takes to start recognizing belonging without a reference point to measure it against.

    July 24, 2026
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