282: The Trauma of Purity Culture | Dr. Laura Anderson

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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UNLOCK my full conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson on Adverse Religious Experiences: https://www.patreon.com/posts/5-common-adverse-97677702

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About When Religion Hurts:

Religious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize. But religious trauma is trauma.

In When Religion Hurts You, Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side of religion that few like to talk about. Drawing from her own life and therapy practice, she helps listeners understand what religious trauma is and isn't, and how high-control churches can be harmful and abusive, often resulting in trauma. She shows how elements of fundamentalist church life—such as fear of hell, purity culture, corporal punishment, and authoritarian leaders—can cause psychological, relational, physical, and spiritual damage.

As she explores the growing phenomenon of religious trauma, Dr. Anderson helps listeners embark on a journey of living as healing individuals and finding a new foundation to stand on. Recognizing that healing is a lifelong rather than a linear process, she offers markers of healing for those coming out of painful religious experiences and hope for finding wholeness after religious trauma.

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.2	You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
0:20.4	The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors.
0:26.8	Not all legal outcomes are known or final.
0:29.8	Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.
0:34.4	Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.
0:38.8	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast, and happy Valentine's Day to all
0:43.7	who celebrate. In honor of this special day, we're going to be talking all about the trauma
0:48.8	of purity culture, but I'm not doing it alone. I'm joined by Dr. Laura Anderson, the author of the book
0:55.9	When Religion Harts You. She's a psychotherapist, trauma resolution coach, and consultant,
1:01.1	writer, and educator who specializes in complex and developmental trauma, dynamics of power,
1:07.0	and control, and religious trauma. I'm so excited to have Dr. Laura Anderson on the show with me today.
1:12.9	We had a really great conversation where we covered five adverse religious experiences that are
1:17.5	common among many who leave high control religious groups. But today I'm just going to share one of
1:22.0	those points, which is purity culture. We have a really great conversation on that topic.
1:26.9	If you want to hear the other four
1:28.8	adverse religious experiences and you don't want to wait until March 10th, you can go over to
1:33.9	patreon.com slash preacher boys or click the link in the show notes to get access to our entire
1:40.5	hour and nine minute episode that we recorded if you want to list to it right now.
1:45.6	But for anybody else, be sure to check it out when it comes out on March 10th,
1:49.6	2024. All right, guys, without further ado, let's talk about the trauma of purity culture.
1:56.6	This is something that, I mean, 99% of people I talk to have said they've been affected in a negative way by.
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