Many women raised in high-control religion were taught to suppress themselves in the name of “biblical womanhood.” This post explores how purity culture, submission teachings, and spiritualized self-sacrifice disconnect women from themselves — and what embodied healing can look like after religious trauma.

From promise rings to panic on first dates, these 7 signs capture what it can look like to grow up in purity culture.

Many survivors of religious trauma minimize what they went through. Here are three common ways this shows up—and why it makes healing harder.