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By Janice Selbie, RPC I had no personal experience with divorce until I was 35 years old, when my mother called with an overdue, but shocking, announcement: After 43 years

Religious Trauma Syndrome:  a Summary of a talk given May 11, 2021, at the Conference on Religious Trauma By Marlene Winell If you want to respond to this article, you

As we heal from the religious message of being basically bad, questions arise about how we view ourselves now. One important process is to get in touch with the inner

One of our support group members was concerned about her children getting indoctrinated when they get exposed to religion.  A concept that I came across years ago and applied to

Religious Trauma Syndrome is now in Wikipedia!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_trauma_syndrome

Chances are you are here because of a concern about religious harm, recovering from an authoritarian religion, or suffering from religious trauma.  You may have heard of Religious Trauma Syndrome (“RTS”),

General Comments I had a fantastic experience and am so thankful to finally identify what the hell I’ve been struggling with for 35 years.  I felt loved, cared for, and

I met Jesus in Golden Gate Park many years ago and he helped change my life. He sent me in a new direction – away from Christianity. I was reminded

Reclaimers1, you are the pioneers. Reclaimers discard their confining religions and free their minds from the cages made in churches. I support you, I help you, but most of all,

Factors in Childhood Indoctrination in Fundamentalist Christianity From this graphic, it should be clear that a child in a fundamentalist Christian environment faces a powerful array of factors influencing indoctrination.