Religious Trauma + Faith Deconstruction
Recovering from Religious Trauma as a Creative with Rose Crouch
On this episode of the Dangerous Creatives podcast, Kristin Sweeting sits down with therapist Rose Crouch to discuss recovering from religious trauma as a creative, and why it's an important conversation. Religious experiences affect all of the different parts of our lives, including creativity, and they share a bit of their own experiences of growing up in a religious community and their process of deconstructing those ingrained beliefs. In this interview, Rose shares a bit about the benefit of addressing some of these ingrained beliefs and beginning to build an internal relationship and develop increased self trust along the way.
“A gift that can come from a faith deconstruction and/or healing from religious trauma: we stop worrying quite so much about who we're "supposed" to be, and we become more connected to and sure of who we actually are.
And when we’re more sure of who we are, we can more freely put it out there to the world. We can share ourselves more fully and truthfully with our people. We can find more ways to share our gifts and talents and resources to help our communities. We can honor our core values and our boundaries more intentionally.
What a courageous, vulnerable, beautiful thing:
to allow ourselves to be seen for who we truly are.”
-Rose Crouch, LPC-MHSP, NCC