Brian Peck - Church Trauma (N265)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we chat with clinical social worker and a trauma-informed coach, Brian Peck. Brian grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church and upon leaving he began to realise the trauma this had caused, which triggered his faith deconstrcution. He now specialises in helping people work through their experiences of religious trauma.
So we talk to Brian about why religious spaces seem predisposed to traumatic experiences, what red flags we should be looking out for, how we can protect ourselves, how we can navigate relationships if we feel we have to leave, and many other things.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Joy Brooks reflect on their own experiences of religious trauma, and how this has shaped their subsequent faith journey.
Interview starts at 10m 52sÂ
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash. Very pleased to tell you, this is Joy Brooks. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello. |
| 0:43.2 | I think it's four months since you were last on Nomad, or it will be when this goes out. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | Which makes me slightly concerned it's taking you that long to recover from your last episode. |
| 0:53.3 | How are you, Joy? And what have you been up to in the last |
| 0:55.1 | four months? I was thinking about that and thinking it's difficult to make my last three months |
| 0:59.3 | sound particularly exciting because I'm someone who just quite likes a nice routine. I love my |
| 1:04.0 | jobs. I'm happy doing that and then with the family. So I thought I could throw in probably |
| 1:08.9 | the coolest thing I've done in years is going to a Nick Cave concert. |
| 1:12.1 | That's pretty cool, to be fair. |
| 1:13.8 | And it really doesn't represent me. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, but I did love it. |
| 1:18.5 | I would have led with that. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, I don't want to give a false impression. |
| 1:23.1 | So I did a cool thing. |
| 1:24.0 | And I have been occasionally attending church meetings as well, some Eucharists. |
| 1:28.8 | Oh dear. So, yeah, so that's a bit out of the ordinary as well. You are the nomad host that still |
| 1:33.3 | goes to church, aren't you? Yeah, but that makes it sound like I go regularly. I hang around the |
| 1:38.8 | edges of a couple of churches now. You've committed to two churches. No, no, I haven't committed. Do not call it commitment. |
| 1:45.1 | Not only you're the only host that goes to church. |
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