In your 20s watching an objectively terrible movie, based on an IP that you love is the exact same as going to confession. Father tonight I am clearing my sins and watching The Electric State on Netflix 🙌 #christianguilt #churchtrauma
January 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM
In your 20s watching an objectively terrible movie, based on an IP that you love is the exact same as going to confession. Father tonight I am clearing my sins and watching The Electric State on Netflix 🙌 #christianguilt #churchtrauma
5 ways to radically improve your communication with someone experiencing church hurt:
-Listen far more than you speak.
-Don’t tell them how to feel.
-Ask permission to offer advice before giving it.
-Avoid cheap and easy cliches.
-Resist the reflex to “fix” them.
#churchhurt #churchtrauma
-Listen far more than you speak.
-Don’t tell them how to feel.
-Ask permission to offer advice before giving it.
-Avoid cheap and easy cliches.
-Resist the reflex to “fix” them.
#churchhurt #churchtrauma
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
5 ways to radically improve your communication with someone experiencing church hurt:
-Listen far more than you speak.
-Don’t tell them how to feel.
-Ask permission to offer advice before giving it.
-Avoid cheap and easy cliches.
-Resist the reflex to “fix” them.
#churchhurt #churchtrauma
-Listen far more than you speak.
-Don’t tell them how to feel.
-Ask permission to offer advice before giving it.
-Avoid cheap and easy cliches.
-Resist the reflex to “fix” them.
#churchhurt #churchtrauma
Have you experienced generational church trauma? Many can relate to feeling let down by the church. The disillusionment is not just a small scene. #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousInstitutions
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Have you experienced generational church trauma? Many can relate to feeling let down by the church. The disillusionment is not just a small scene. #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousInstitutions
I believed the lessons of my childhood church with my whole heart.
I still do.
This poem is my question back to them: What happened to you?
#ChurchTrauma #StillBelieve #Healing #JustMedicateMe
#FaithAndLove #Deconstruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX...
I still do.
This poem is my question back to them: What happened to you?
#ChurchTrauma #StillBelieve #Healing #JustMedicateMe
#FaithAndLove #Deconstruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX...
To the Church of My Youth: What Happened To You?
YouTube video by Just Medicate Me
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September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I believed the lessons of my childhood church with my whole heart.
I still do.
This poem is my question back to them: What happened to you?
#ChurchTrauma #StillBelieve #Healing #JustMedicateMe
#FaithAndLove #Deconstruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX...
I still do.
This poem is my question back to them: What happened to you?
#ChurchTrauma #StillBelieve #Healing #JustMedicateMe
#FaithAndLove #Deconstruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX...
Silence after church trauma isn’t holy 😶🌫️—it’s heavy.
I found freedom when I spoke the truth 💔✨.
Maybe it’s your time too.
Read here 👉 https://wp.me/pfotiJ-qw
❤️ Like, 🔁 share & Follow @nilegomez for more real talk on faith, healing & hope.
#ChurchTrauma #HealingJourney
I found freedom when I spoke the truth 💔✨.
Maybe it’s your time too.
Read here 👉 https://wp.me/pfotiJ-qw
❤️ Like, 🔁 share & Follow @nilegomez for more real talk on faith, healing & hope.
#ChurchTrauma #HealingJourney
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Silence after church trauma isn’t holy 😶🌫️—it’s heavy.
I found freedom when I spoke the truth 💔✨.
Maybe it’s your time too.
Read here 👉 https://wp.me/pfotiJ-qw
❤️ Like, 🔁 share & Follow @nilegomez for more real talk on faith, healing & hope.
#ChurchTrauma #HealingJourney
I found freedom when I spoke the truth 💔✨.
Maybe it’s your time too.
Read here 👉 https://wp.me/pfotiJ-qw
❤️ Like, 🔁 share & Follow @nilegomez for more real talk on faith, healing & hope.
#ChurchTrauma #HealingJourney
A woman-powerful, independent, unrepentant, called “Jezebel”
It's not "scripture," it's patriarchy dressed as theology.
This misogyny also fuels queerphobia, and transphobia.
The feminine is despised in all
Jezebel is a bad ass!
#SacredRebellion #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #TransAndQueer
It's not "scripture," it's patriarchy dressed as theology.
This misogyny also fuels queerphobia, and transphobia.
The feminine is despised in all
Jezebel is a bad ass!
#SacredRebellion #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #TransAndQueer
August 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A woman-powerful, independent, unrepentant, called “Jezebel”
It's not "scripture," it's patriarchy dressed as theology.
This misogyny also fuels queerphobia, and transphobia.
The feminine is despised in all
Jezebel is a bad ass!
#SacredRebellion #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #TransAndQueer
It's not "scripture," it's patriarchy dressed as theology.
This misogyny also fuels queerphobia, and transphobia.
The feminine is despised in all
Jezebel is a bad ass!
#SacredRebellion #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #TransAndQueer
Christians love to use “Jezebel” as an insult.
Maybe Jezebel wasn’t the villain.
Maybe she was a badass survivor.
👉 Part 2 drops tomorrow: Why Jezebel still matters today.
#SacredRebellion #Deconstruction #Exvangelical #QueerFaith #FeministFaith #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #QueerVoices
Maybe Jezebel wasn’t the villain.
Maybe she was a badass survivor.
👉 Part 2 drops tomorrow: Why Jezebel still matters today.
#SacredRebellion #Deconstruction #Exvangelical #QueerFaith #FeministFaith #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #QueerVoices
August 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Christians love to use “Jezebel” as an insult.
Maybe Jezebel wasn’t the villain.
Maybe she was a badass survivor.
👉 Part 2 drops tomorrow: Why Jezebel still matters today.
#SacredRebellion #Deconstruction #Exvangelical #QueerFaith #FeministFaith #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #QueerVoices
Maybe Jezebel wasn’t the villain.
Maybe she was a badass survivor.
👉 Part 2 drops tomorrow: Why Jezebel still matters today.
#SacredRebellion #Deconstruction #Exvangelical #QueerFaith #FeministFaith #ChurchTrauma #Patriarchy #BibleStudy #QueerVoices
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
just been spending my days letting my voice get louder about the harm evangelical spaces perpetuate.
always at someone’s darkest moment. with promises they can’t make good on.
#deconstruction #exvangelical #churchtrauma #breakupsongs
🧛🏽♀️🩸✌🏽🔥
always at someone’s darkest moment. with promises they can’t make good on.
#deconstruction #exvangelical #churchtrauma #breakupsongs
🧛🏽♀️🩸✌🏽🔥
July 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
just been spending my days letting my voice get louder about the harm evangelical spaces perpetuate.
always at someone’s darkest moment. with promises they can’t make good on.
#deconstruction #exvangelical #churchtrauma #breakupsongs
🧛🏽♀️🩸✌🏽🔥
always at someone’s darkest moment. with promises they can’t make good on.
#deconstruction #exvangelical #churchtrauma #breakupsongs
🧛🏽♀️🩸✌🏽🔥
Not all churches are safe.
Especially for us—Two-Spirit, Indigenous, neurodivergent, survivors of residential schools.
Faith without justice is colonization.
Land acknowledgments mean nothing without change.
We deserve truth, safety, and healing.
#WeAreTheFire #ChurchTrauma
Especially for us—Two-Spirit, Indigenous, neurodivergent, survivors of residential schools.
Faith without justice is colonization.
Land acknowledgments mean nothing without change.
We deserve truth, safety, and healing.
#WeAreTheFire #ChurchTrauma
June 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Not all churches are safe.
Especially for us—Two-Spirit, Indigenous, neurodivergent, survivors of residential schools.
Faith without justice is colonization.
Land acknowledgments mean nothing without change.
We deserve truth, safety, and healing.
#WeAreTheFire #ChurchTrauma
Especially for us—Two-Spirit, Indigenous, neurodivergent, survivors of residential schools.
Faith without justice is colonization.
Land acknowledgments mean nothing without change.
We deserve truth, safety, and healing.
#WeAreTheFire #ChurchTrauma
Fake-friendly churches lure LGBTQ+ people in, then try to “fix” them.
Here’s how to find the real affirming churches — and avoid the traps: hollypettit.substack.com/p/where-can-...
#LGBTQ+ #Exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Deconstruction #AffirmingChurch #SpiritualAbuse #ReligiousTrauma
Here’s how to find the real affirming churches — and avoid the traps: hollypettit.substack.com/p/where-can-...
#LGBTQ+ #Exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Deconstruction #AffirmingChurch #SpiritualAbuse #ReligiousTrauma
Where Can LGBTQ+ Seekers Find a Truly Open and Affirming Church? (And Avoid the Fake Ones)
A guide for LGBTQ+ Christians, exvangelicals, and seekers: how to find truly affirming churches—and how to spot the dangerous counterfeits.
hollypettit.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Fake-friendly churches lure LGBTQ+ people in, then try to “fix” them.
Here’s how to find the real affirming churches — and avoid the traps: hollypettit.substack.com/p/where-can-...
#LGBTQ+ #Exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Deconstruction #AffirmingChurch #SpiritualAbuse #ReligiousTrauma
Here’s how to find the real affirming churches — and avoid the traps: hollypettit.substack.com/p/where-can-...
#LGBTQ+ #Exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Deconstruction #AffirmingChurch #SpiritualAbuse #ReligiousTrauma
Hollywood sells it. The Church profits from it. Fear is the oldest business.
#SecularClarity #ExorcismMyth #FaithVsFacts #FearBasedFaith #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousManipulation #DeconstructingFaith
#SecularClarity #ExorcismMyth #FaithVsFacts #FearBasedFaith #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousManipulation #DeconstructingFaith
May 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hollywood sells it. The Church profits from it. Fear is the oldest business.
#SecularClarity #ExorcismMyth #FaithVsFacts #FearBasedFaith #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousManipulation #DeconstructingFaith
#SecularClarity #ExorcismMyth #FaithVsFacts #FearBasedFaith #ChurchTrauma #ReligiousManipulation #DeconstructingFaith
Not sure if my latest release is something you're interested in? Check out this review from @bookshelfie.bsky.social book-shelfie.com/review/sings... #bookclubfiction #churchtrauma #womensfiction
Sings & Wonders, by Angelic Rodgers—Book Review - Bookshelfie
In "Signs & Wonders," Angelic Rodgers throws readers into the heart of Arkansas's culture wars through the story of Leah McHendrick, a schoolteacher
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May 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Not sure if my latest release is something you're interested in? Check out this review from @bookshelfie.bsky.social book-shelfie.com/review/sings... #bookclubfiction #churchtrauma #womensfiction
I faked tongues while thinking about nachos and Levi Sanford’s forearms.
They called it healing.
I call it trauma.
Read the full poem:
www.adamrye.com/poetry/to-th...
#PoemExvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #ChurchTrauma #QueerHealing #Glittergrit
They called it healing.
I call it trauma.
Read the full poem:
www.adamrye.com/poetry/to-th...
#PoemExvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #ChurchTrauma #QueerHealing #Glittergrit
To the Healers Who Never Healed Me | Queer Exvangelical Poem by Adam Rye — Adam Rye
Read Adam Rye’s poem for the queer kids who were prayed over, spoken at, and never actually healed. A raw, defiant callout to the altar-call crowd—and a reclaiming of queer joy beyond church shame.
www.adamrye.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I faked tongues while thinking about nachos and Levi Sanford’s forearms.
They called it healing.
I call it trauma.
Read the full poem:
www.adamrye.com/poetry/to-th...
#PoemExvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #ChurchTrauma #QueerHealing #Glittergrit
They called it healing.
I call it trauma.
Read the full poem:
www.adamrye.com/poetry/to-th...
#PoemExvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #ChurchTrauma #QueerHealing #Glittergrit
I know they’s Gods’chilren, but I swanny! Just seeing some of their names on social media runs chills up and down my spine and makes me grit my teef!
There’s trauma and then there’s #churchtrauma #retiredpastor
There’s trauma and then there’s #churchtrauma #retiredpastor
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I know they’s Gods’chilren, but I swanny! Just seeing some of their names on social media runs chills up and down my spine and makes me grit my teef!
There’s trauma and then there’s #churchtrauma #retiredpastor
There’s trauma and then there’s #churchtrauma #retiredpastor
As someone who read the Left Behind series, today on the internet has been a lot. Thankful for Mason’s Veggie Tale laugh.
And everyone I read it with is MAGA now. They can’t see it.
The trauma never ends. But the United States probably will. 🥴
#exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Alttext
And everyone I read it with is MAGA now. They can’t see it.
The trauma never ends. But the United States probably will. 🥴
#exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Alttext
February 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
As someone who read the Left Behind series, today on the internet has been a lot. Thankful for Mason’s Veggie Tale laugh.
And everyone I read it with is MAGA now. They can’t see it.
The trauma never ends. But the United States probably will. 🥴
#exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Alttext
And everyone I read it with is MAGA now. They can’t see it.
The trauma never ends. But the United States probably will. 🥴
#exvangelical #ChurchTrauma #Alttext
#churchtrauma #churchhurtisreal #churchfamily #churchhurt #trauma
See the full video on Tiktok at the link below www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY3pPPWX/
See the full video on Tiktok at the link below www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY3pPPWX/
#churchhurt #churchgirl #churchtok #churchtrauma #trauma
TikTok video by Frederick Dare
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January 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#churchtrauma #churchhurtisreal #churchfamily #churchhurt #trauma
See the full video on Tiktok at the link below www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY3pPPWX/
See the full video on Tiktok at the link below www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY3pPPWX/
I have learned that many of my enemy are those in the church. Many tell me there is no such thing as #churchtrauma and that they preach the truth but the so called "truth" lead to the abuse and treatment I had to face until my disability was finally diagnosed #disabilitysky #disability #church
December 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
I have learned that many of my enemy are those in the church. Many tell me there is no such thing as #churchtrauma and that they preach the truth but the so called "truth" lead to the abuse and treatment I had to face until my disability was finally diagnosed #disabilitysky #disability #church
My pastor & bishop both did & told the congregation if we don't we would be ruining the country. Whenever I talk about my #churchtrauma people laugh or say there is no such thing... they have no idea. If you ever have time please check me out on the Handicapable Black Woman on #youtube. No pressure
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
My pastor & bishop both did & told the congregation if we don't we would be ruining the country. Whenever I talk about my #churchtrauma people laugh or say there is no such thing... they have no idea. If you ever have time please check me out on the Handicapable Black Woman on #youtube. No pressure
Don’t get me wrong. It ended up turning out okay. We can look back now and see that we escaped with some wounds but had we stuck around it would have been so much worse. #churchtrauma 3/5
December 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Don’t get me wrong. It ended up turning out okay. We can look back now and see that we escaped with some wounds but had we stuck around it would have been so much worse. #churchtrauma 3/5
My whole life I struggled with being LGBTQ in a space that wasn’t safe. I suppressed my feelings because our church regularly preached against it, and sent a young gay man to conversion camp. I came out at 35. Since coming out as bisexual, I have strived to be a safe person. #LGBTQ #ChurchTrauma
November 20, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My whole life I struggled with being LGBTQ in a space that wasn’t safe. I suppressed my feelings because our church regularly preached against it, and sent a young gay man to conversion camp. I came out at 35. Since coming out as bisexual, I have strived to be a safe person. #LGBTQ #ChurchTrauma
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