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When leaving religious communities creates lasting trauma responses

I left my fundamentalist church three years ago but I still wake up with panic about going to hell and I do not know how to convince my nervous system that I am safe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your body continues to live in the fear-based reality your mind has rejected, creating a split between intellectual freedom and somatic captivity.

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