Most people are aware of the damage that a cult can do to its members, but what about the other experiences people can through with dealing with religious trauma. Chris and John sit down to discuss what it is means to go through religious trauma. John brings is decades of ministry work to give good insights of what can happen to members of churches and how those experiences should be handled to give them a change to recover.
Tune in to see Religious Trauma Through a Therapist’s Eyes.
Listen for the following takeaways from the show:
- This episode is not just going to cover those affected by cults.
- Previous episodes 117 and 139 talk more in depth about getting out of a cult and how to move on from them.
- Therapists should have someone they can refer their clients to about their faith.
- Cults have a commonality that the focus becomes about the leader versus the higher power/being.
- What classifies as a cult?
- What are 7 signs that help you identify that you might be in a cult.
- Can religious trauma exist outside of a cult?
- People want to think that these things are not happening in my congression.
- Good people do allow bad people to get away with things.
- We need to think about the individual and the the experiences they went through.
- How do you approach those caught up in a bad religious experience.
- A big part of recovery is you do not do this alone.
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