healing religious trauma
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For many, religion offers meaning, community, and belonging. But for others, religious institutions and teachings have left behind wounds of shame, fear, guilt, or rejection.
Religious trauma can emerge when spiritual teachings are used to control rather than liberate, when rigid dogmas silence authentic experience, or when one’s deepest questions and individuality are met with condemnation. Religious trauma is not simply an “intellectual disagreement with belief.” It reaches into the Soul, affecting identity, relationships, self-worth, and the capacity to trust. Healing from this kind of trauma requires more than walking away—it calls for a tender process of recovery, reclamation, and re-imagining one’s relationship with the sacred. |
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an integrated path of healing and transformation
Archetypal Coaching is an integrative process that combines depth psychology with contemplative practice. Drawing on the insights of Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, this approach explores the universal patterns - archetypes - that shape our lives and the stories we inherit. At the same time, it creates sacred space for Soul-tending, where your lived experience of the Divine, psyche, and anima mundi (world soul) can be honored and renewed.
Through this process, you are invited to:
Through this process, you are invited to:
- Recognize and release harmful narratives inherited from rigid or controlling religious systems.
- Reclaim inner authority by withdrawing projections of power from external institutions and locating that authority within your own soul.
- Encounter guiding archetypal images and symbols that support healing, renewal, and transformation.
- Cultivate a living spirituality through practices of mindfulness, meditation, dreamwork, and symbolic exploration that open new ways of experiencing the sacred.
- Integrate wounds into wisdom, turning the pain of the past into the foundation for deeper authenticity and freedom.
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wholeness beyond woundsArchetypal Coaching does not ask you to return to dogma or discard your spiritual inheritance. Instead, it supports you in transforming what has been harmful into a source of strength and wisdom. It is a path of healing where psychological insight and spiritual depth meet—helping you move from disempowerment to authenticity, from fragmentation to wholeness, from silence to your own unique spiritual voice.
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Religious trauma need not define your story.
It can become the fertile ground for a renewed life that is rooted in freedom, creativity, and genuine connection to Soul and spirit.
It can become the fertile ground for a renewed life that is rooted in freedom, creativity, and genuine connection to Soul and spirit.
"Our spirituality is not an isolated process that can be relegated to weekend worship services. Neither can it be fully contained within a dogmatic system of thought.
Our spirituality develops organically as we mature.
Ideally this means that it contains less and less childhood residues."
~ Lionel Corbett
Psyche and the Sacred; Spirituality Beyond Religion
Our spirituality develops organically as we mature.
Ideally this means that it contains less and less childhood residues."
~ Lionel Corbett
Psyche and the Sacred; Spirituality Beyond Religion
If you are interested in experiencing Archetypal Coaching;
Or if you have questions about the practice of meditation;
Or if you have questions regarding individual or group dream work;
Or if you would like to schedule a class, workshop or retreat;
Please visit the CONTACT page and send me an e-mail.
Or if you have questions about the practice of meditation;
Or if you have questions regarding individual or group dream work;
Or if you would like to schedule a class, workshop or retreat;
Please visit the CONTACT page and send me an e-mail.