Healing Sacred Wounds: A Guide to Overcoming Religious and Spiritual Trauma

Provides a clinically grounded, compassionate framework for understanding and healing religious and spiritual trauma. Written by an experienced therapist and trauma specialist, it offers readers practical tools to name their wounds, reclaim agency, and move toward wholeness-whether or not they choose to remain within a religious tradition.

Drawing on empirical research, therapeutic practice, and the author's own lived experience, SC Nealy explains how harmful religious environments can prod...