Reclaiming Your Inner Authority After Religious Trauma with Dr. Tanya Johnson

<p>In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tanya Johnson (she/her), licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, and counseling professor, for a deep dive into the psychology of religious trauma and high-control groups.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Johnson breaks down exactly how high-control religions use behavioral, emotional, thought, and information control to keep members compliant and disconnected from their own instincts. </p><p></p><p>In this episode we cover:</p><ul><li>Why religious trauma is so hard to recognize and why we minimize it</li><li>The BITE model and how cults control every aspect of your inner world</li><li>How high-control groups train you to interpret your emotions through their lens</li><li>Why anger is repressed in religious spaces and what that costs you</li><li>The connection between the fawn response and religious conditioning</li><li>Why neurodivergent people can have a unique relationship with high-control groups</li><li>How to talk to loved ones who are still inside a high-control religion</li><li>Why leaving religion can feel like losing your identity and map for reality</li><li>Reclaiming your inner authority and learning to trust yourself again</li><li>The martyrdom complex and how it follows you out of the church</li><li>Why doing it scared is the only way through conditioned guilt and fear<p></p></li></ul><p>Dr. Johnson also shares resources for finding religious trauma informed therapists and her own courses for both clients and therapists in training.</p>