Lori Williams | A Liminal Space Coaching

Category: spiritual abuse recovery

  • Finding Hope Amidst Chaos: A Personal Journey

    It is I Who Must BeginIt is I who must begin.Once I begin, once I try –here and now,right where I am,not excusing myselfby saying thingswould be easier elsewhere,without grand speeches andostentatious gestures,but all the more persistently–to live in harmonywith the “voice of Being,” as Iunderstand it within myself–as soon as I begin that,I suddenly…

  • When Appeasement Becomes a Way of Life

    I didn’t have words for what happened to me for a long time. Laura Anderson’s Religious Power and Control Wheel gave me a map. Here I walk through each category — and share what I lived inside each one.

  • The House Is Haunted. You’re Not Crazy

    Religious trauma lives in the body long after you’ve left the building. Here’s what actually helps — and why peer support works when other approaches make it worse.

  • A Prayer of Complaint, Petition, and Resolution

    A prayer born from threshold moments—naming consumption as the shadow we refuse to see. For survivors learning the difference between being fed and being fed upon.

  • A Table for My Enemies

    “I have spent so much of my life closing and barring the door to the parts of myself I find unacceptable. I’m realizing as I get older how much energy it requires to continue to push on this door to prevent it from breaking open. Sitting on my desk is a little golden table—a sacred…

  • Understanding Spiritual Trauma and Its Impact

    When the ground you thought would always hold becomes unstable—that’s spiritual trauma. After a decade of trying to heal in places that retraumatized me, I learned what survivors actually need. It’s not what most churches think.

  • One Box at a Time

    Can you remember the last 5 self-help tips you saw on Instagram? I couldn’t. Every scroll triggers emotions without purpose. Every post we forget still drains our energy. Information that isn’t thoughtfully applied just becomes noise. Time to sort through one box at a time.

  • The Ground Beneath My Feet

    All I’d ever done was pretend—first in the family that raised me, then in the church. I didn’t even know I was pretending. Then I finally faced the truth, and people were talking about me. What followed was almost a decade of wandering. But what I’ve found in peer support groups isn’t another savior—it’s shared…

  • Finding Solid Ground When Everything Feels Like Chaos

    Does it ever feel like too much? I open social media and immediately feel overwhelmed. I miss the old Facebook—when my feed was just friends sharing life updates. Now I’m bombarded with headlines screaming that the world is on fire, democracy is crumbling, and I need to act now or be complicit. My nervous system…

  • Care or Carrying?

    **Tags:** – trauma recovery – boundaries – codependency – religious trauma – emotional responsibility – self-leadership – caring vs carrying – parenting adult children – healing patterns – compassion fatigue – inner work – family dynamics – faith deconstruction – emotional boundaries – recovery coaching **Excerpt:** I was 17 when I called my ex-boyfriend to…