Lori Williams | A Liminal Space

Tag: adoption trauma

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You Were Not Lucky. You Were Lost.

    Before I ever walked into a church, I was already carrying something. A loss that happened before language. Before memory. Before I had a single word for any of it. This is the story of what that loss made me believe — and what I am finally learning to let go.

  • Are You Running on Fear?

    Our nervous systems are wired to keep us alive, not to keep us happy. They’re incredibly good at detecting danger, but terrible at telling the difference between real threats and false alarms. That rustling in the bushes could be a bear or it could be a squirrel. Your nervous system doesn’t care—it just screams ‘RUN!'”

  • When the Shell Cracks: Finding Truth Beyond Religious Performance

    Truth always finds a way to surface. Our ego tries to keep everything together, but eventually the shell cracks and what’s inside starts leaking out. If we’re brave enough to look at what seeps out instead of frantically patching the holes, we might find what we’ve been searching for all along.

  • When Authority Becomes the Enemy of Truth

    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert EinsteinThe ambulance lights cut through the darkness at the convenience store. Someone had played Russian roulette and lost. As I drove past that night, seventeen and heartbroken after my boyfriend left me for my best friend, I looked up at the empty sky…