![]() ![]() I also spoke with therapist Sheri Heller who specializes in treating complex trauma, addictive disorders, survivors of narcissistic abuse in addition to religious and spiritual trauma. Shimmy went on to talk a bit about “trauma resilience,” which is a study that revealed that not everyone is impacted by the same trauma in the same way. Not everyone has that.” - Shimmy Feintuch If someone grows up with the idea that if you do X,Y, and Z, you’re going to hell, for some people there is a real loss of the sense that they are okay. That can come from something horrific happening, but it can also come from anything that impacts someone’s ability to feel safe or secure. “I think about trauma as a loss of safety or security. What is religious trauma and spiritual trauma? Shimmy and I noted that, while a lot of the questions we received referenced Christianity and Catholicism, these can apply to many kinds of faith.ġ. I spoke with MWB therapist Shimmy Feintuch, who has many patients that come to unpack their experiences with religion and spirituality. Who knows, they might be your perfect match! And if you’ve been thinking about starting therapy and want our team to do the matchmaking for you, head over to our questionnaire and begin the process for free! ![]() When looking for your therapy match, it’s important that you feel your therapist can help you unpack your particular upbringing and experiences - and religion and spirituality can be a big part of that! If you’re in NYC and any of the therapists in this article resonate with you, you can tap on their names at any point and check out their profile. We gathered your burning (lol, topical) questions on Instagram and got answers from three of our MyWellbeing therapists who all specialize in religious and spiritual trauma. Religious trauma is real and pervasive, leaving many people feeling paralyzed and full of shame, and it is important that our community know that there are tools to begin to unpack it and wonderful therapists who are able to support that process. Without therapy, I might still be in that place of intense shame and crisis, and I am so grateful for the help that I got in the wake of that trauma. It took nearly a year of therapy to even admit what had happened in that training, and much effort to dissolve the layers of shame around it before I could finally dive into all the reasons why this experience was so painful to me. ![]() In the months that followed, I spiraled into a deep depressive episode. It wasn’t the books or the practice that was telling me these things, but a specific teacher who was taking advantage of my youth and my passion for yoga, and who was using spirituality as a tool to manipulate me.įor the first time in my life, I was having a spiritual crisis. Within that, there were judgements of traditions I loved, personality traits I had previously championed in myself, and an expectation that I should “give up” my identity. It’s a long story, but the jist of what happened is this: I was made to believe that I could be saved if I committed fully and solely to an eastern spiritual practice and give up everything I had known before. And then I went to yoga teacher training. ![]() I took bits and pieces of the yoga sutras that I loved, explored prayer, and felt connected to my own version of a higher power. But, when I was 20, I found yoga, and for the first time began to consider myself a spiritual person. ![]()
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