Since anger often serves as the gateway to grief, and grief is the indicator that an event or experience has been relegated to the past, very often for people to begin to heal they need permission to connect fully with their own anger first. This is not an easy task for people who have spent most of their life being told that anger was disobedience and that disobedience was sin. It is vitally important for people recovering from religious trauma to find safe spaces—both therapeutic and communal—that allow for expressions of anger so that the survivor can discharge the energy that they couldn’t
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