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When religious concepts trigger personal trauma

The imam keeps talking about submission and I keep thinking about my mother who submitted to my father's fists for twenty years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sacred language can become psychologically unsafe when it echoes patterns of harm experienced in human relationships.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined faith — living deliberately within a tradition?”

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