Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Many people come to therapy upon the realization that their ...

Even though people have long experienced religious trauma, Nashville therapist Laura Anderson quickly realized they haven’t always received the most responsive mental health care. Soon after she ...

In my years of practice, I have had the honor of helping many individuals recognize and heal from religious trauma. As you can imagine, when something so sacred as religion is used in a way by the ...

(RNS) — Raised in an evangelical church she now describes as a “dumpster fire” of fundamentalist beliefs, Laura Anderson’s terror of hell kept her up at night ...

Have you experienced religious trauma/spiritual abuse or other trauma from which you can't seem to bounce back? Do you ever think that your mind, emotions, and/or body are your enemy? Do you want to ...

(RNS) — Shelise Ann Sola grew up in a devout Mormon family in Tremonton, Utah. At 19, after being berated by her local bishop for being sexually active with her boyfriend, she began to question her ...

Not long ago, a family member sent me a message linking my sexual orientation to painful events in our family history and describing my identity as spiritually disordered and in need of correction.

These days, it seems like trauma talk is everywhere you turn. Looking back, signs of an approaching wave were there. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that public conversation about religious ...

(RNS) — ‘Our bodies recognize that we’re being activated and pushed into trauma responses and that the same abusive techniques are being used on us,’ said author Tia Levings. (RNS) — When Donald Trump ...