num_pages: 82
description: Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family Jamie Lee Finchs You Are Your Own offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt guilt fear and grief that haunt those leaving the Evangelical faith and offers an approach to help them recover healthy self-worth and resilience.A socio-historical autobiographical analysis of Evangelical Christianity's religious trauma You Are Your Own emerges from Finch's reconnaissance on her own lifeher journals her stories her traumaand offers advocacy for everyone harmed by fundamentalist faith.Jamie Lee Finch is a sexuality and embodiment coach intuitive healer self-conversation facilitator sex witch and poet. You can learn about Jamies work at JamieLeeFinch.com
language: English
title: You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
publisher: None