A workbook for religious deconstruction and self-reclamation.
If you’re holding this, something has already given way. A question you couldn’t stop asking. A harm you could no longer explain away. An exhaustion so old you mistook it for your personality. You arrived here through your own honesty. That is no small thing, and no betrayal. It is the first act of a self that was always there, underneath the obedience, waiting to be allowed.
This workbook won’t tell you what to believe, or whether to believe at all. That work is yours alone. What it does is help you understand what happened to you, name it accurately, and put tested tools in your hands. It draws on the most rigorously researched treatments for trauma, naming honestly where the evidence is strong and where it is still developing: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Across seven parts you move from understanding what was done to you toward coming home to yourself: Understanding what is happening to you · When leaving becomes trauma · Naming the system · The God you were handed · The mind you were trained · The grief of losing your faith · Coming home to yourself.
54 pages. Move at your own pace. There is no finish line, only contact with what is true for you.
Created by Lisa Cummings, LCSW · Wild Hearts Collective
A workbook for religious deconstruction and self-reclamation.
If you’re holding this, something has already given way. A question you couldn’t stop asking. A harm you could no longer explain away. An exhaustion so old you mistook it for your personality. You arrived here through your own honesty. That is no small thing, and no betrayal. It is the first act of a self that was always there, underneath the obedience, waiting to be allowed.
This workbook won’t tell you what to believe, or whether to believe at all. That work is yours alone. What it does is help you understand what happened to you, name it accurately, and put tested tools in your hands. It draws on the most rigorously researched treatments for trauma, naming honestly where the evidence is strong and where it is still developing: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Across seven parts you move from understanding what was done to you toward coming home to yourself: Understanding what is happening to you · When leaving becomes trauma · Naming the system · The God you were handed · The mind you were trained · The grief of losing your faith · Coming home to yourself.
54 pages. Move at your own pace. There is no finish line, only contact with what is true for you.
Created by Lisa Cummings, LCSW · Wild Hearts Collective
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