My guest today is Brian Peck. He is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who specializes in religious-based trauma in his private practice and who helps guide individuals through their deconversions with evidence-based practices online. His practice is called Room to thrive and Brian describes it as “secular therapy for human well being.” It is trauma-informed therapy and coaching. Brian has had a huge impact on me and my thinking. It was a great pleasure to get to pick his brain. You can hear me learning in real-time during our discussion. If you have survived trauma (of any sort), your nervous system did exactly what it needed to do to survive. This episode is another in an ongoing series of mental health professionals who specialize in religious trauma, religious abuse and the emerging term Adverse Religious Experiences. We humans need community to survive. Links Room To Thrive https://www.roomtothrive.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/RoomToThrive Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RoomToThrive/ Viral "Trauma is not your fault (period)" post https://www.facebook.com/RoomToThrive/posts/2496151297329417 How and Why We Believe https://lifeaftergod.org/059-how-and-why-we-believe-part-1/ Interact I quote Brian in my article on the Steps of Deconversion https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/Adverse Religious Experiences series: https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/category/adverse-religious-experiences/ Attribution "Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Makaih_Beats  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/