Embodiment
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What Religious Trauma Actually Does to the Nervous System
It is Thanksgiving, and a woman who left her childhood church eleven years ago is standing in her mother’s kitchen when an uncle asks, not unkindly, whether she has found her way back yet.She has an answer ready. She has had this conversation before. But her stomach drops before she can open her mouth, and…
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The Body Remembers What the Mind Explains Away
Sometimes the mind moves faster than the body. A person may understand, intellectually, that they are no longer in the old situation. They may know that a former authority no longer has power over them, that a feared doctrine no longer makes sense, or that a community’s judgment no longer defines who they are. And…