This video is eye-opening, it showed me how I've experienced religious trauma ("purity culture") from my childhood until recently. I've worked through some of it on my own, but there is still a lot more there. Please, keep your videos coming!
I haven't heard of the "fawn" response before, but it explains a lot about my religious trauma. I was a superhuman people pleaser back in the day, and while I've made a lot of progress since my deconversion eight years ago, I still get triggered. Just a few weeks ago, we were planning a birthday party for my husband and we had to tell his family that this would be an adults-only party, no small kids (we have a bunch of nephews under 8 yrs.). I was so anxious and scared that his family would be angry with us for excluding the kids. My chest felt tight and I was having trouble breathing... yeah it was a whole thing. Everything turned out fine, no one was angry, the party went great, but boy, did I feel blindsided by my reactions! I guess I still have work to do in that area . . . Will you be posting more videos about religious trauma? I hope so!
Religious trauma, even in small doses is so harmful. I was never raised to be strictly Christian or any religion, but through school I picked up a bit of religious trauma. I remember especially believing in Adam and Eve, and it made me so confused because i believed in evolution, but I also believed in Adam and Eve. Even today, as a beginner Atheopagan, I find myself wreaked with anxiety every now and then thinking im going to burn in hell for being who i am, even though i don't believe in god, satan or any kind of deity. I believe all supernatural beings are figments of our imagination or personified metaphors.
This video is eye-opening, it showed me how I've experienced religious trauma ("purity culture") from my childhood until recently. I've worked through some of it on my own, but there is still a lot more there. Please, keep your videos coming!
Thanks for sharing your advice and expertise.
I haven't heard of the "fawn" response before, but it explains a lot about my religious trauma. I was a superhuman people pleaser back in the day, and while I've made a lot of progress since my deconversion eight years ago, I still get triggered. Just a few weeks ago, we were planning a birthday party for my husband and we had to tell his family that this would be an adults-only party, no small kids (we have a bunch of nephews under 8 yrs.). I was so anxious and scared that his family would be angry with us for excluding the kids. My chest felt tight and I was having trouble breathing... yeah it was a whole thing. Everything turned out fine, no one was angry, the party went great, but boy, did I feel blindsided by my reactions! I guess I still have work to do in that area . . .
Will you be posting more videos about religious trauma? I hope so!
Thanks, Jeremy. So much information! Appreciate you sharing your experience and expertise.
Religious trauma, even in small doses is so harmful. I was never raised to be strictly Christian or any religion, but through school I picked up a bit of religious trauma. I remember especially believing in Adam and Eve, and it made me so confused because i believed in evolution, but I also believed in Adam and Eve. Even today, as a beginner Atheopagan, I find myself wreaked with anxiety every now and then thinking im going to burn in hell for being who i am, even though i don't believe in god, satan or any kind of deity. I believe all supernatural beings are figments of our imagination or personified metaphors.
Nice! Someone need to be talking about bad representatives of religion...