Tag: you are not alone
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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…
