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Why minimizing religious pain keeps you stuck

My therapist says I have religious trauma but I feel guilty calling it trauma because other people had it so much worse than me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to diminish one's own suffering creates a secondary wound that prevents authentic healing.

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