Recs if you like Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing...
Deconstructing & Exvangelical 🙏
I’ll exvangelize away here 🧐
A pile of non-fiction and memoirs helpful on the personal journey of deconstruction with all feels as well as critical reflections about (evangelical) fundamentalism, high control religion, Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS), Purity Culture, etc
Deconstruction can be such a lonely journey, so I hope you’ll feel comforted by similar experiences! You’re not alone!
From saint to sinner: religious deconstruction
Nonfiction to read when you’re deconstructing your faith or seeking to understand why others have left religion. For novels exploring the topic, check out my list “Fiction with Themes of Religious Trauma”
so, you wanna read like a therapist?
books that are well known in the therapy & mental health world - often read & recommended by therapists, social workers, and other professionals in the field 💕
Religious Trauma Is Real
In Defiance of Religious Hypocrisy
For those of us deconstructing, for those of us questioning, for those of us hurting, for those of us no longer religious, you are not alone. May you feel supported and angered.
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