First of all, don’t lose your self-confidence. Listen to that voice that takes you in the right direction. I had doubts, everybody has doubts, I had doubts at times. But...
As a legal matter, consent is not a possibility in those kinds of situations…So we began doing [legal work on] sexual assaults in cult-like high demand communities, and we started...
There really is this need, a requirement, that in order to have consent you need to have full information. You also need to be able to say ‘no’ without...
One of the most damning and destructive parts of spiritual trauma is the way that the diminishment of humanness is handed down as spiritual maturity. And it’s actually more a...
[T]here is increasing academic research and policy interest in what have been termed high-demand, high-control religious movements. This incorporates a broader field of vision than NRMs [New Religious Movements] and...
Abuse, including religious or spiritual abuse, is different from trauma…abuse is what happens to us, while trauma is our nervous system’s response to what happens to us.”
