Posts tagged mental health
Looking Back, I Can See the First Signs of Religious Trauma. I Just Didn’t Know What Was Happening.

The first time I notice that religious trauma was beginning to affect me was with religious scrupulosity or religious OCD.

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How Switching from Religious to Spiritual Helped Ease My Religious Scrupulosity

When you’re a religious person who earnestly wants to do the right thing, you become willing to listen to guidance from wherever it comes.

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How Religion Taught Me to Take a Passive Approach to Life

The way I understood things before, I wasn’t supposed to make big decisions about my life.

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Two Things I Learned After Leaving Religion Behind

I believe we should try to practice spirituality in a way that feels right to us, not in a way that people tell us we’re supposed to do it.

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