#18 TDP "Deconstruction & Healing Religious Trauma" featuring Brooke Owens - Grace Lauren Taylor

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This week, Licensed Pastoral Counselor Brooke Owens discusses how religious trauma affects sexuality and can create anxiety, depression, guilt, and shame around intimacy and how we can heal from it!

Religious Abuse is defined by abuse administered under the guise of religion, including harassment or humiliation that may result in psychological trauma. Religious abuse may also include the misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends, such as the abuse of a clerical position. It is also not limited to coercing into giving money or other resources that you didn't want to give, forcing intimacy or sex without consent for the false purpose of pleasing God. 

Women who killed Nazis are Hannie Schaft and Freddie Oversteegen
https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen

Book Recommendations by Brooke:
When Religion Hurts You by Laura E. Anderson, PhD https://amzn.to/45ULT3V
Beyond Shame by Matthias Robert’s https://amzn.to/3Moz0rT
She Deserves Better by Sheila Wray Gregoire https://amzn.to/45V8a1H

Research & Resources: 
Religion and Suicide Risk: a systematic review
Ryan E Lawrence, MD, MDiv., Maria A. Oquendo, MD., and  Barbara Stanley, PhD.
Arch Suicide Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 Jun 23.Published in final edited form as:Arch Suicide Res. 2016; 20(1): 1–21. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2015.1004494
PMCID: PMC7310534NIHMSID: NIHMS770467PMID: 26192968
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310534/

Suicide Prevention Resource Center
https://sprc.org/settings/faith-communities/

Do beliefs about God affect suicide risk?
https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/spotlight/issue-194

How to know if you’ve been abused by religion 
https://www.satyawellnesscollective.com/blog/what-are-the-signs-of-religious-trauma
https://www.1800respect.org.au/violence-and-abuse/spiritual-abuse#:~:text=Spiritual%20abuse%20is%20sometimes%20called,of%20domestic%20and%20family%20violence
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-religious-abuse-6259926
https://www.thehotline.org/resources/what-is-spiritual-abuse/
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-spiritual-abuse
WebMD
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-spiritual-abuse#:~:text=Religious%20Abuse&text=You%20may%20be%20experiencing%20religious,that%20you%20didn't%20want

Choosing Therapy
https://www.choosingtherapy.com/spiritual-abuse/

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