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Adult Child

103 - Religious Trauma & Abuse w/ Dr. Laura Anderson

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Laura Anderson is a psychotherapist specializing in religious trauma and co-founder of The Religious Trauma Institute. After enduring decades of religious abuse, she is now on a mission to provide religious trauma-informed support and resources to survivors religious trauma, adverse religious experiences (AREs), faith deconstruction, cults, spiritual abuse, and leaving high demand/high control systems.
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My ex and I broke up for religious reasons. He believed he was God and I did not.

0:07.0

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

0:14.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:15.0

What you holding on to?

0:19.0

What you holding on to?

0:20.0

But just let it all go.

0:22.0

What's making you slow now?

0:25.0

That it all go.

0:26.0

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

0:32.0

Ahoy, my shit show. of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

0:33.0

Ahoy, my shit show party peeps.

0:36.6

How we doing?

0:37.5

Are we alive?

0:38.5

Are we breathing?

0:39.9

Do we have a pulse?

0:41.6

That reminds me there was this woman, Judith Kay,

0:43.8

with like a million years sober,

0:45.5

that went to one of the meetings

0:46.6

that I went to in San Francisco.

0:48.4

And she used to always share that.

0:50.2

She would say the first thing that I do

0:52.1

when I wake up every morning in my bed is check to see that I got a pulse and as long as I do I know that it's going to be a good day.

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