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Adult Child

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

⏱️ 92 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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0:00.0

My ex and I broke up for religious reasons.

0:04.4

He believed he was God and I did not.

0:07.3

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

0:26.6

Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up

0:30.9

in a dysfunctional family.

0:32.9

Ahoy, my shit show, Party Papers.

0:36.7

How we doing?

0:37.7

Are we alive?

0:38.7

Are we breathing?

0:40.0

Do we have a pulse?

0:41.8

That reminds me there was this woman Judith Kay with like a million year sober that went

0:45.8

to one of the meetings that I went to in San Francisco and she used to always share

0:49.8

that.

0:50.8

She would say the first thing that I do when I wake up every morning in my bed is check

0:55.4

to see that I got a pulse and as long as I do, I know that it's going to be a good day.

1:04.0

For any new people I'm Andrea, I am a really big shit show.

1:09.1

I am a recovering alcoholic.

1:11.9

I am recovering adult child and if you're wondering what the hell an adult child is, well allow

1:18.9

me to tell you.

1:19.9

It could be three definitions, okay?

1:21.7

So the first one is, this would be the definition that's used in the big red book.

1:28.2

So this is the primary text of the 12-step program, adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional

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