Tag: high control religion
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A Hundred Miles Tall and a Thousand Miles Deep
A reflection on grief, the outliers who survive, and what it means to finally know your own name. This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page. “Hell isn’t underground. It’s the world you live in when you’re too afraid to be yourself.” — Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out…
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They Told Me My Body Was the Problem
A reflection on purity culture, body shame, and what it cost me to exist in a female body (This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page.) “Your body is not an apology.” — Sonya Renee Taylor I was twenty years old, kneeling at a church pew in a long skirt,…
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Nobody Told Us We Were Allowed to Feel This
A reflection on the hidden wounds of religious trauma — and the community that forms when someone finally says it out loud (This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page.) “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi I wrote a post this past week about…
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We Are Free Now
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel A reflection on safety, indoctrination, and the long road back to trusting yourself. I started today with Day 2 of Lisa Romano’s inner child journaling guide. The theme was simple and devastating in equal measure: Sense of Safety. The prompt asked…
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