by Deborah Cox | Sep 7, 2025 | anger, Becoming More of Your True Self, body psychotherapy, cultural healing, dissociation, Feel Better, getting grounded, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, religion, religious abuse, Wife Material, Women
In When the Body Says No, physician Gabor Maté reveals a hard truth: when we silence our emotions, our bodies eventually speak for us—through illness. Autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, even cancer often emerge in people who have spent years denying their own anger,...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 12, 2021 | anger, cultural healing, Relational Cultural Theory, religion, religious abuse
So Many Sick People A sea of sick people. Not bad people. Just regular people who’ve joined at least one cult. I believe that bad religion, religious abuse, and spiritual trauma hurt the individual, the community, and the world. Right now, the United States has...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 29, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Create Art, Feel Better, following inspiration, Mood, Write and Heal
Creating Soul Healing You probably know how I feel about this one. Art saves lives. But for the rest of this post, I’ll stay away from the word, “Art,” and replace it with “Creativity” or “Creating.” Creating leads us out of...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 13, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Feel Better, following inspiration, Therapy
Lift Up & Away from Religious Trauma Fiction (and memoir) reorganizes our internal narratives, and allows us to try on the emotional resources of others. It does this, not by selling us products or threatening us with what we MUST-do-or-be-damned, but by...
by Deborah Cox | Jul 1, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Create Art, Feel Better, following inspiration, Mood, Wife Material
Never lose an opportunity of seeing something beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is the basis of my spiritual discovery process. I found the Anglican church on a trip to England, back in ’07, a time of big...
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