Religious deconstruction
In Alyssa Grenfell’s book “How to Leave Mormonism; An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion”, she emphasizes how lonely it is to deconstruct your faith and rebuild your life on your own. This was my experience as well. I started by joining an online support group which helped me find lifelong friends. Finding a new community to join was helpful in so many ways. However, I needed more help processing the trauma of growing up in the church. Religious trauma is persistent and appears in all aspects of our lives. I needed help relearning how to be an independent autonomous adult in this world. I needed help recognizing and releasing behaviors that were no longer serving me. I needed a person who understood the impact and could recognize what was happening in my nervous system and help me navigate how to heal it and calm it when I was activated. I found a coach who was able to give me all this and inspired me to pay it forward. Deconstructing is a grueling and painful process and I would love to be the person to walk that path with you.