Religious and spiritual trauma is often an overlooked experience that enormously impacts generations. As more and more humans decide to leave organized religions or join cults, we are understanding the effects of those experiences as traumatic and adverse. Listen to Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW, discuss adverse religious experiences and how they lead to foundational belief systems that present as complex trauma. Concepts of religious messaging, shame, enmeshment, attachment, and negative spiritual experiences will be explored. Find out how EMDR therapy can help heal those impacted.

Resources 

• Spiritual Abuse Screener - Dan Koch 
• Religious Trauma Inventory -  Anna Clark-Miller
• Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire 
• Religious Trauma Quiz 
• Adverse Religious Experiences Questionaire by Rebekah Drumsta 
• Religious Trauma Institute

Cassidy DuHadway's handouts about religious trauma, including a book list and all the links above, are here.

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Musical soundtrack, Acoustic Motivation 11290, supplied royalty-free by Pixabay.

Produced by Kim Howard, CAE.

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