@eleanorskelton.bsky.social spent most of their teenage years within the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement and Independent Fundamental Churches of America.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlil...

#spiritualabuse #religioustrauma #cults #IFB #IFCA #ChristianNationalism #cultsurvivor #churchtoo

IFB survivor Stuart Hardy shares what The Vashti Initiative would have meant to him when he was transitioning out of an oppressive religious environment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOxs...

#deconstruction #spiritualabuse #religioustrauma #cults #IFB #churchtoo #healing #support

@rlstollar.bsky.social talks about his own journey healing and deconstructing from #evangelicalism.

"Therapy has helped me regain a sense of selfhood, that I belong to myself, and that I have a right to speak up when others’ actions harm me." #churchtoo

vashtiinitiative.org/2022/01/27/y...

Megan Benninger with BaptistAccountability.Org shared her story about recovering from PTSD after leaving high-control religion on our blog.

#VashtiCares #survivorstories #spiritualabuse #religioustrauma #ptsd #ptsdawareness #recovery #healing #churchtoo

vashtiinitiative.org/2021/08/27/f...

IFB survivor Deanna tells of how she fled the group where she was born and raised, widely known as the Independent Fundamental Baptist church. She explains how Vashti could have helped her.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnLb...

#spiritualabuse #religioustrauma #IFB #cults #deconstruction #churchtoo

Our former volunteer executive director Evan Jones talks about how he was ostracized for being #LGBTQ + #trans in the IFB church.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ5S...

#spiritualabuse #religioustrauma #healingjourney #independentfundamentalbaptist #IFB #cults #deconstruction #churchtoo

These photos are what I looked like when I was first sent to work, without pay, at 8 years old. Today is World Day Against Child Labor. This is my story. marynikkel.substack.com/p/what-child...

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Always reblog, because too many of us were thrown out into a big wide world with almost nothing to our name, including an education. I was fortunate in a lot of ways but I know many who weren't.