For those who spent their childhood being raised in a toxic religious environment, the shift must jackhammer through the more concrete messages within the foundation of our identity formed during childhood development. Messages of fear, hierarchical worth, and arrest of autonomy deliver an otherwise healthy individual to adulthood with a mix of diagnoses contributing to a lack of agency- otherwise known as failure to thrive.
As one experienced on both sides of this toxic mentality trap, I want to communicate that we are free to escape that bondage. We don’t need the acceptance of a cult to justify who we are and our places in the grand scheme of things. My most authentic self is determined within a relationship between me and my maker alone.
I remember the first time my husband and I attended a Christian church that did not identify as fundamentalist or evangelical. It was a day that offered me a jolt that conjured an awareness in me that I did not… Continue Reading →
Cancel Culture, a practice older than the term it carries, describes actions that people take to hold others accountable. At least, this is the most agreed upon term by individuals who are most politically polarized according to a survey by… Continue Reading →
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