Episode 70: How To Know You're Healing From Spiritual Trauma with Dr. Laura Anderson
“When we focus on healing as like, “I’m done. I have this end point,” we miss all these moments along the way, everyday, that happen that indicate to us that we’re changing and a different person.”
-Dr. Laura Anderson, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson. Dr. Anderson is a licensed psychotherapist in Nashville, TN with her private practice focusing on individuals with complex trauma and specialties in domestic violence, sexualized violence, and religious trauma. She is also the co-founder of the Religious Trauma Institute whose focus is to provide clinical training, supervision, consultation, and support to therapists, coaches, advocates and others in the helping professions who are working with individuals experiencing religious trauma and adverse religious experiences. Laura is also the founder of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery—an online coaching practice whose practitioners are trauma informed and trained to work with all types of trauma but specialize and are passionate about working with religious trauma. In this episode, Madison and Laura speak on growing a business that meets the growing need for mental health support as people who experience religious trauma, as well as the crossover between religious abuse, domestic violence and narcissistic abuse, continuing to live out the same patterns after leaving the church, how to notice the markers of healing and so much more.
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In this episode, we talk about:
Laura's experience of religious abuse and trauma and deconstructing
Growing a business that meets the growing need for mental health support as people who experience religious trauma
Belonging, isolation, disconnection and relationships within deconstruction
High demand and control groups and the long lasting impacts of their abuse
The crossover between religious abuse, domestic violence and narcissistic abuse
Continuing to live out the same patterns after leaving the church
Triggers versus uncoupling and our nervous system
Markers for healing and how to know if you're healing
Using goodness as a form of healing when it feels easier to suffer for it
Healing fundamentalism in our bodies and healing how we live out our binary thinking
Where to find more of Laura:
Laura is most active on her Instagram page, here: @drlauraeanderson
Laura's Website: www.lauraandersontherapy.com
Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery:
@traumaresolutionandrecovery (Facebook/IG)
www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com
Religious Trauma Institute:
@religioustraumainstitute (Facebook/IG)
@religioustrauma (Twitter)
