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FEATURED: Podcast Guest – Diet Culture, Purity Culture, & Disconnection from Our Bodies

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I was recently invited to chat with Kari Fillian, host of the Your Friend the Therapist Podcast, about my work with religious trauma and body image concerns. Season 2 of the podcast is focusing on topics surrounding harm within religious settings and systems, including the variety of impacts this harm can have and the ways […]

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Understanding and Healing Black Religious Trauma

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Black Religious Trauma is real, and it can look different than other spiritual abuse experiences.   This post is part of a series of posts that I’m sharing during Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month in January 2024.  You may want to check out the previous posts on the topics of Understanding Spiritual Abuse and Resources for Healing.  

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In My Planning Era

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I recently received a Google Trends alert showing that the phrase “in my _ era” was a trending topic this year. That is all thanks to T. Swift I’m sure. It got me thinking about what “eras” I’ve experienced this year. I can’t label the entire year, but as 2023 has been winding down, I’ve

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Holidays and Religious Differences

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Many holidays have some type of religious meaning or undertone. Celebrating can be difficult when there are religious differences between yourself and the friends and/or family you gather with. Navigating religious differences can be difficult any time you combine extended time together and events that focus on religious beliefs. This can be especially true for

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The Impact of Judgement Houses

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Have you ever heard of a “Judgement House” or a “Hell House”? These are a way that many evangelical churches in the Southern US have chosen to deal with Halloween. They were especially popular in the 90s and early 2000s, but I still see marketing for them at area churches today. In fact, I just

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FEATURED: Religious Trauma on Kindred with Aubrey Baptista

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Religious Trauma and Body Image Concerns are often intertwined. Diet culture. Purity culture. Body as a temple. Bodily desires as sinful. I address the common roots and issues that can arise from both religious trauma and from body image concerns throughout this site. I recently got the chance to chat with Aubrey Baptista of Kindred

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Weight Stigma Awareness Week

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We are just beginning Weight Stigma Awareness Week here in the United States, which runs from September 25th-29th for 2023. Weight Stigma Awareness Week has been around since 2011, and was previously promoted by NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association). NEDA is an organization which has been known both for making important information available to the

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Why Is It Important to “Treat Yo’Self”?

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“Treat Yo’Self” has become a popular phrase in recent years. It’s sometime used in the context of purchasing things that you may not need. It can occasionally be used to highlight a person’s right to do kind things for themselves. Honestly, “Treat Yo’Self” has gotten a bad rep in some circles. But what if the

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FEATURED: Preventing Therapist Burnout at Therapist Collective

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Therapist Burnout is a common topic among those who work in the mental health field. We often find ourselves in positions of offering support and care to others. The personal characteristics that draw us to our work as therapists often mean that we see the needs of others all around us and may struggle to

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