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When siblings process shared religious trauma differently

My sister and I both left the religion we grew up in but she's angry about it and I'm grateful for what it gave me, and we can't talk about our family or our past without this tension that neither of us knows how to name.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people who experienced the same formative influences are discovering that their different relationships to that shared past reflect fundamentally different ways of making meaning from difficult experience.

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