Tag: spiritual abuse
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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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They Burned the Girl Who Wrote
A reflection on voice, violation, and the girl who refused to stop writing This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. See my full disclosure on my Resources page. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If…
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Hair, Shame, Judgement, and Power.
I shaved my head for the second time today. The first time I shaved it about a month ago, I felt angry, overcome with emotions from some past trauma with my childhood that I was revisiting. I shaved it in tears, not fully understanding the sensations of feelings that were flooding me. Today, I did it…
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