Review of For God’s Sake: Recovering From Religious Trauma For God’s Sake by Anna Clark Miller is an extremely useful and easily digestible nonfiction, educational book that honors the complexity and heft of religious trauma. It is a very welcome addition to my bookshelf, and I started recommending it to my clients before I was…
It’s not uncommon for my clients (and people in my real life too) who have trauma to initially reject the label “trauma” for themselves. This personal distancing has probably been reinforced by the current ubiquity of the word. This has been fueled by a mix of social media misinformation and oversimplification, the shift in mental…
It’s the most wonderful queer time of the year – PRIDE month! For the LGBTQIA+ community, June kicks off the summer with a joyous, celebratory month of parties, parades, and more. Pride month is so many things. It began as a protest march in the early 1970s to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn…