Healing After Religion: Recovering From Spiritual Abuse

By Christina Waren

What happened to you was real. It has a name. And you can heal from it.

If faith was ever used to frighten, shame, control, or silence you, you already know the strange ache of a wound no one around you would call a wound. Maybe you've left. Maybe you're standing at the door. Maybe you still believe, and only know that something has to change. Wherever you are, you are not broken, and you were never the problem.

Healing After Religion: Recovering from Spiritual Abuse is a gentle, clear-eyed companion for anyone recovering from spiritual abuse and religious trauma, whether it came from a high-control group or an ordinary church that looked perfectly normal from the outside. Written in warm, direct language that meets you exactly where you are, it walks with you through the long work of coming back to yourself.

Inside, you'll find a path through four stages of healing:

The Wound: understanding what happened and the marks it leftThe Return: coming home to your body, your stillness, and your own trustThe Rebuild: navigating changed relationships, boundaries, and the life you actually wantThe Becoming: reclaiming meaning, mystery, joy, and a spiritual life on your own terms

There are no lectures here, and no new doctrine to adopt. Only the steady reassurance that healing is real, that you get to question everything, and that you are allowed to trust yourself again.

You don't have to do this alone. And it is not too late to come home to yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H5MFGM9M
• ISBN13: 9798181898103
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"