RELIGIOUS TRAUMA + SPIRITUAL ABUSE + CULT RECOVERY
RECOMMENDED MEDIA
BOOKS
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#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
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Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science by Mike McHargue
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God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do About God by Tim Clinton and Joshua Staub
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How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns
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I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough” by Brene Brown
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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation By Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion by Marlene Winell
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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz Ph.D.
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Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story by Julie Rodgers
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
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The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
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The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Gregoire & Lindenbach
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The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by David Johnson & Jeff VanVonderen
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Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
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Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Chuck DeGroat
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You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch
PODCASTS
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For the Love with Jen Hatmaker
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The Deconstructionists Podcast
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The FoMo (Former Mormon) Podcast
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The Gateway: Teal Swan
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The Liturgists
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The Modesty Files
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The Phil Drysdale Show
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The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
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You Have Permission
DOCUMENTARIES
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Cults and Extreme Belief (2018)
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
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Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (2020)
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Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (2022)
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Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
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Mormon No More (2022)
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Pray Away (2021)
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Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (2023)
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The Deep End (2022)
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The Keepers (2017)
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Wild Wild Country (2018)