Brian Peck, LCSW (he/him) Trauma-informed therapy and coaching for #ReligiousTrauma and #Deconversion Cofounder: @religioustrauma
United States
Joined February 2017
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I was accused of killing Jesus when I was only 7 years old.
I still remember the guilt, the shame, the confusion. How was it that my benign childhood behavior was implicated in the murder of an adult I had never met?
It wasn’t your fault your parents got divorced. Your grandmother didn’t get sick because you weren’t nice enough. You didn’t deserve the abuse you experienced. The death of Jesus at the hands of other adults had nothing to do with you talking back to your mom.
Nothing.
When it comes to #ReligiousTrauma, being spiritual is not a substitute for being safe. In fact, spirituality without safety often functions as a form of dissociation.
Room To Thrive retweeted
"despite no longer believing in hell, or purity culture, or the imminent rapture, they all struggled to overcome the toll those ideologies had taken on their minds and bodies."
Such an important article. Thank you @lauraeanderson @RoomToThrive @C_Stroop
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Room To Thrive retweeted
“Denison University political scientist @PaulDjupe estimates that just over 20 percent of American evangelicals, or eight million people, left the church between 2016 and 2020.”
The #EmptyThePews phenomenon turns out to bigger than I realized newrepublic.com/article/1617…
Room To Thrive retweeted
@lauraeanderson bringing it on the reality of religious trauma: "This is trauma, the same way trauma manifests from sexual violence or war."
Great to see quotes from @brchastain @C_Stroop @PaulDjupe. Great work @srussellkraft!
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Room To Thrive retweeted
Thrilled to have been interviewed for this excellent article on religious trauma!
(And shout out to my amazing friends and colleagues who were also contributors: @RoomToThrive @C_Stroop @brchastain and Kathryn Keller)
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It's encouraging to see #ReligiousTrauma getting more attention. Shout out to all those who contributed to this piece including @lauraeanderson, @brchastain, @C_Stroop, and @religioustrauma, @RFRorg, @SecularTherapy
#Exvangelical
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Trauma lives in the body, and treating it is made all the more difficult when an individual must first regain a sense of their own bodily self.
Unity is not a virtue in a society that does not value your humanity. roomtothrive.com/blog/unity-…
Instead of creating a context for resolving their own trauma, superficial unity provides cover for reenacting and perpetuating unresolved trauma.