You Lied to Me About God: Unpacking the Shame-Filled Messages of Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma
Time: Fri 12:00PM
Venue: Convo Table 01
Style: Experiential
Content Type: spiritual abuse religious trauma recovery
Description: Spiritual abuse is when God, religion, or some other spiritual idea is used to demean and control an individual or a group of people. Abuse assumes the presence of a power differential and shaming strategies are typically used by abusive people or systems to wield this control. In this interactive, experiential workshop, Dr. Jamie draws on almost twenty years of clinical trauma experience working with survivors of spiritual abuse and her own lived experience of growing up with one Catholic parent, one Evangelical parent, and surviving a long-term stint working for the Catholic church in a humanitarian aid setting AND studying extensively at a yoga ashram. Through these collective experiences, Jamie shares how the definition of shame as \the lie someone told you about yourself, God, or the world\ is what keeps so many of us stuck in abusive systems and in our healing. We will explore together, engage in some optional practices together, and learn how to shift the lies into liberating, healing truths for ourselves.
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