Faith is often meant to be a source of comfort, belonging, and guidance, but for many, religious spaces can also leave behind wounds rooted in shame, control, exclusion, or silence. These experiences can deeply impact identity, relationships, and emotional well being, making healing feel complex, especially when spirituality still holds meaning.

Healing Without Losing Yourself: Mental Health, Identity, and Recovery After Religious Harm is a 90 minute virtual workshop designed to gently support individuals in unpacking the effects of harmful or high control religious experiences. This space centers reflection, understanding, and compassionate healing without pressure to abandon faith or conform to new rigid beliefs.

Together, we will explore how internalized shame can take shape within belief systems and how it may show up in self worth, boundaries, sexuality, and relationships. Grounded in trauma informed and anti oppressive care, this workshop also highlights how religious harm intersects with identity, including LGBTQ plus experiences, race, gender, and immigration, while making space for healing that is affirming, communal, and self defined.

Through guided reflection, nervous system awareness, and self compassion practices, participants will be invited to reconnect with themselves, reclaim their sense of agency, and explore what spirituality can look like on their own terms.

If navigating faith has ever felt confusing, heavy, or isolating, this workshop offers a space for clarity, healing, and community, because healing does not have to come at the cost of who you are.