#15 - Dr. Laura Anderson - When Religion Hurts You - Healing From Religious Trauma - The Impact Of High Control Religon

Has religion hurt you too? You are most welcome, as we speak about recovering from the impact of religion, especially the impact of growing up in a religion. Laura Anderson is a psychotherapist and has a PhD in Mind Body Medicine. She is also the founder of Religious Trauma Institute AND Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery! Plus the author of "When religion hurts you : Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion" and she is podcaster in Sunday School dropout We talk about: -To leave a religion is not just stop believing - leaving church is just the beginning of the deconstruction process -Spiritual abuse - To identify with being a sinner aka shame -To be raised in the awareness that we do not deserve life -How you need to build internal resources to allow happiness and excitement to not overwhelm your system -Volunteer-work for God serving a higher vision while neglecting your own security requirement -I will just put in a few quotes from Dr. Laura Andersons IG: -"In healing religious trauma, it may be necessary to grieve your idea of who god was, or gods existence entirely" -"Denial is a defense mechanism that keeps us from seeing things how they truly are/were, because if we did see them for how they truly are/were, it would feel consciously intolerable" -"Recovering from high control religion often includes grieving the ways we were taught about the world, people, and how to navigate relationship." -"Recovering from high control religion often includes: Grieving normal childhood and adolescent development - Being able to make mistakes and learn from them- Privacy - Comprehensive sex education - Being threatened with the punishment of hell - Requirement to take on tasks that are meant for adults - Viewing your bodies as evil -"When we have a sense of internal safety, our boundaries are able to expand and change" - Hope you will tune in - we are sharing experiences as well as hearing Dr. Laura Andersons knowledge in this area she has specialized in around control and abuse. She is building communities and changing worldviews, I say that is an 11th house sun. I recommend Dr. Laura Andersons Instagram for inspiration: https://www.instagram.com/drlauraeanderson/ Here is her website: https://drlauraeanderson.com/ And her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/sunday-school-dropouts/id1689312239 Feel free to contact me for comments: therapeuticastrologer@gmail.com I also just got myself a linktree, so modern I am: https://linktr.ee/therapeuticastrology - Mannah