Lori Williams | A Liminal Space

Tag: religious trauma

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Healing From Religious Trauma Isn’t Linear

    I believed everything happened for a reason — until reporting abuse taught me some things don’t work that way at all. A story about loss, meaning, and learning to reintegrate.

  • Toxic Systems and Why You Were Never the Problem

    You were taught your needs were too much — that staying small was safety, and asking for anything meant risking not being wanted. This is about the toxic systems that teach us that, and what real belonging actually feels like instead.

  • Relief Isn’t Always Healing

    Sometimes the way we think about healing is the very thing keeping us from it. A reflection on spiritual bypassing, the difference between relief and real healing, and what it looks like to finally witness our own pain.

  • The Pirate in the Mirror: What Backrooms Knows About the Rooms We’re Afraid to Enter

    I watched Backrooms on vacation and couldn’t stop thinking about one image — a giant in a pirate costume, his face twisted in absolute misery. I recognized that look. I’d seen it in my own mirror. What this film knows about the rooms we’re afraid to enter might surprise you.

  • 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…

  • 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.