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Why Pride Month Can Feel Complicated for LGBTQ+ Survivors of Religious Trauma
For many LGBTQ+ survivors of religious trauma, Pride Month can bring up grief, fear, shame, and complicated emotions alongside celebration. This post explores the lasting impact of high-control religion on identity, visibility, safety, and healing.
How Purity Culture Uniquely Impacts LGBTQ+ Survivors of Religious Trauma
Purity culture doesn’t just shape heterosexual relationships—it profoundly impacts LGBTQ+ people in ways that are often confusing, isolating, and deeply internalized. This post explores how queer individuals raised in high-control religious environments experience identity confusion, shame, delayed development, and disconnection from desire and the body.
Biblical Womanhood vs Embodied Womanhood: How High-Control Religion Disconnects Women From Themselves
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.
7 Signs You Grew Up in Purity Culture (And Why It Still Affects You)
From promise rings to panic on first dates, these 7 signs capture what it can look like to grow up in purity culture.
5 Things Normalized in High-Control Religion That Are Actually Toxic
High-control religion often normalizes public shaming, forced confession, thought policing, and spiritual control. Here are 5 toxic patterns that impact religious trauma survivors long after they leave.
3 Ways Religious Trauma Survivors Minimize Their Trauma
Many survivors of religious trauma minimize what they went through. Here are three common ways this shows up—and why it makes healing harder.
When Healing Hurts: Choosing the Discomfort That Leads to Freedom After Religious Trauma
Not all pain means progress. In religious trauma recovery, learning to choose the discomfort that leads to freedom is part of healing. Discover what productive discomfort looks like — and how to stop confusing suffering with growth.
How Purity Culture Hurts Queer People — and What Healing Really Looks Like
Purity culture often told queer people their identities were wrong or unholy. But healing means unlearning those messages and reclaiming the love, freedom, and self-worth you were always meant to have.
What Is Religious Trauma?
Religious trauma happens when fear, shame, or control within a faith community cause lasting harm. Learn the signs and how healing is possible.
The Harmful Legacy of James Dobson — And What Religious Trauma Survivors Need to Hear Now
James Dobson shaped evangelical culture, and his harmful teachings on sex, purity, and gender left many survivors with shame and trauma. Here’s how to understand that legacy and begin healing.