Anonymous thoughts about religious trauma.
The damage that came wrapped in love and absolute truth.
Learning that what you were taught and what is real are different things.
Rebuilding an interior from ground level.
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Religious trauma is the specific wound of a framework that claimed total authority over your interior life. Not just what to believe but who you were, what you deserved, what happened to people like you. The damage is complicated because it often came from people who loved you, who believed what they were teaching, who thought they were protecting you.
Anonymous thoughts about religious trauma posted here are from people living in the aftermath — the specific process of rebuilding an interior life when the original architecture was someone else's.