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When religious trauma complicates spiritual longing

I was sexually abused by a priest when I was twelve and now at 45 I still sometimes feel drawn to churches but I don't know if that's healing or just trauma.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The wound and the yearning are so intertwined that the path toward healing cannot be separated from the source of harm.

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