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Religious Trauma Therapist-Recommended Resources
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items This Benable board features therapist-recommended books on religious trauma, spiritual abuse, faith deconstruction, and recovery from high-control or authoritarian religious environments. Curated for mental health professionals working with clients n...
When Religion Hurts You helps readers make sense of religious trauma by clearly explaining how high-control churches, spiritual abuse, and fundamentalist beliefs can impact mental health, relationships, and identity. This book is especially supportiv...
When Religion Hurts You - by Laura E Anderson (Paperback)
Holy Hurt has recently been released and is already going to be a classic religious trauma book!
Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing|Audiobook
This book is a great resource for those who are struggling with things that happened during their religious upbringing.
Living With Post-Traumatic Religious Depression: Life After Church Hurt, (Paperback)
For me personally, this was such a game-changer in understanding the role of evangelicalism and other sects of Christianity in American history and systemic racism.
The Color of Compromise Study Guide: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism|Paperback
This practical guide for moving your life forward after religious trauma or spiritual abuse is so useful.
Religious Trauma Survival Guide
Dr. Hassan's book is such a great look at history, mind control tactics, manipulation techniques, propaganda techniques, and personal autonomy through a psychology lens
Pre-Owned The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (Hardcover) 1982127333 9781982127336
This self-help book is great for people who want to stay Christian. It helps the reader separate adaptive spiritual values from religious abuse.
Holy Ghosted: Spiritual Anxiety, Religious Trauma, and the Language of Abuse
Educating clergy about religious trauma is so necessary in the fight against spiritual abuse, fascism from Christian nationalism, and religious abuse in Christian spaces.
Sanctuary of Healing - by Julia Matallana Freedman (Paperback)
Jesus and John Wayne helps readers understand how modern evangelical culture, Christian nationalism, and rigid gender roles shaped harmful power dynamics within churches and families. This book is useful for anyone deconstructing faith or healing fro...
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, (Paperback)
This mental health guide to recovering from religious trauma syndrome is from the author of A Well-Trained Wife.
I Belong to Me
Blake Chastain's inspirational book for exvangelicals is so useful for anyone navigating our current political landscape
Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back|Hardcover
This is another great exvangelical book for examining and deconstructing one's upbringing.
The Exvangelicals - by Sarah McCammon (Paperback)
This is a great resource for therapists who work with exvangelicals or ex-evangelicals who still want to prioritize spirituality in a Christian way.
Exvangelical: Seven Steps to Leaving ...
This book offers a historical perspective about systems that can cause and perpetuate religious trauma, spiritual abuse, etc.
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
This is great for emerging therapists and those who specialize in working with LGBTQ+ populations.
Religious Trauma, Queer Identities: Mapping the Complexities of Being LGBTQA+ in Evangelical Churches|Hardcover
The target audience of this book is mental health practitioners and it's a refreshing, neutral perspective of a sub-type of trauma
Routledge Focus on Religion Counseling Survivors of Religious Abuse, (Paperback)
The cover has been redesigned, but this is a classic book for understanding spiritual abuse from a mental health perspective
Healing Spiritual Abuse - by Ken M Blue (Paperback)
This is great for promoting autonomy and practical steps for reclaiming identity.
Recovering from Religious Abuse : 11 Steps to Spiritual Freedom (Paperback)
This guide to healing is from a very Christian, pro-religion, and spiritual perspective.
Understanding Spiritual Abuse: What It Is and How to Respond|eBook
This thought-provoking book is very pro-women, pro-surviviors, and pro-justice. It's a great guide for understanding the weaponization of scripture in toxic purity culture rhetoric.
Leaving Silence
A refreshing look at how survivors can incorporate the Bible into their healing (obviously when and only when they express this is what they want in therapy).
To Heal or Harm: Scripture's Use as Poison or Medicine for Abuse Survivors|Paperback