CAN WE HEAL FROM RELIGIOUS ABANDONMENT?
HAVE YOU NOTICED YOURSELF THINKING THINGS LIKE...
"I feel alone and scared that I might never be able to experience true connection, friendship, or love."
"I often "people please" and have my boundaries walked all over, which leaves me feeling hollow and like I don’t matter."
"I feel weighed down, burdened and limited in my relationships - like I keep bumping into an invisible wall holding me back."
"I swing between panic and sadness, frightened to open up in case I get hurt, but also panicking that if I don’t find some way to fix this it will become a life-sentence."
"I'm confused, hurt and angry at how they can just cut me off like that!"
"I feel frustrated and like I either need to hide away or just try my best to fit in like a chameleon, but I can't be my authentic self."
"Deep down I know I’m being taken advantage of and treating myself as if I’m only here to be a slave to other people’s needs or expectations."
YOU'RE NOT ALONE...
It feels as if everyone we knew died, and so there is the natural grief, but we also know that they’re still out there going about their lives and they’re only dead to you because they’re CHOOSING to be.
Grief, confusion, anger, frustration, and (maybe most painfully of all) hope… The moments of hope when you optimistically think that your loved ones might wake up and escape and you may be reunited with them, followed swiftly by a hard crash back into reality.
This grief cycle can hold us back for years, in a couple of ways:
On the one hand, dealing with the oscillation between pain and numbness towards the ones we left behind takes a HUGE amount of mental and emotional energy.
On the other hand, navigating through life trying to build friendships and relationships with that deep inner voice saying “they’re going to abandon you just like everyone else did.”
This being the case, the past contaminates the future and we struggle to be present and make the most of what we have now.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS?
There’s no one right way, but I want to share what I’ve found helpful in my own healing journey, and what I use with my clients in my Religion Rehab work.
My professional background is in Hypnotherapy, Behavioural Profiling & Behavioural Engineering, and so these are the modalities that I bring forward to address the challenges of leaving the org.
Join me for a deep dive into how we can heal from religious abandonment.
In this workshop I’m sharing practical tools to gain closure, reclaim our headspace, process the emotional pain of abandonment, and make the space to build relationships with people who know, accept, and love us unconditionally for who we are.
HEAL FROM RELIGIOUS ABANDONMENT WORKSHOP