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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
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
The Lure and the Magnet: Why You Keep Getting Pulled Toward the Wrong Rooms

Sometimes we get lost trying to find our way home. If you’ve ever walked away from a community wondering what was wrong with you — this is for you. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re just someone who was paying close attention.

May 8, 2026
What Is Real Safety — And How Do You Find It?

Safety isn’t the absence of danger. It’s the presence of something. Learn how to recognize real safety in your body, test for it in relationships, and begin rebuilding trust with yourself — one small step at a time.

April 25, 2026
Overcoming Religious Trauma: The Theology of Self-Trust

Self-distrust doesn’t arrive all at once. It gets installed — quietly, systematically, by systems that need you not to trust yourself in order to keep you close.

April 17, 2026
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.

April 13, 2026
Are We Human or Are We Dancer?

Are we living from something true and rooted in us, or are we moving to someone else’s rhythm without even knowing it? I spent years dancing to a beat that wasn’t mine — convinced it was leading me home. This is what I learned about systems that use our deepest needs to keep us in…

March 12, 2026

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