If you have been a part of a high control or rigid religious community, you have probably encountered some harmful messaging about emotions. This can make it quite problematic to experience the full range of human feelings within these contexts!

If you were like me and grew up in a conservative evangelical church, you most likely were tasked with something very important – finding God’s will. This search was woven into most decisions you made – who you dated, where you went to college, what major to study, who you married…

Have you ever been sitting in the pew at church and started to feel uneasy because something that was said from the pulpit didn’t sit right with you? Have you ever been reading your Bible and started questioning what you had been told certain verses meant?