Dr. Laura Anderson draws on her training as a trauma therapist, scientific research, and personal experiences of growing up in a high demand/high control religious system and resolving the trauma that resulted, to offer hope for what life can be after deconstructing and/or deconverting from one’s faith.

She challenges the cultural beliefs suggesting bad church experiences are simply a result of sinful humans and instead helps the reader recognize how messaging, beliefs, and practices present in high demand/high control religions can have a multi-dimensional impact, creating the need for healing to happen in multiple dimensions as well.

Instead of viewing healing as an end point which someone arrives at and is done healing, Laura offers that healing is an ongoing process that encompasses every moment and aspect of life. Using a blend of real-life examples and research, this book provides education while inspiring hope that reclaiming life after adverse religious experiences and/or religious trauma is both possible and is already happening in the day-to-day moments of life.