When the Trauma is From God

 


TRIGGER WARNING. This episode details one woman’s story of
religious trauma and emotional abuse and may be triggering for
some.  Please proceed with caution.


Religious trauma is a condition experienced by those who are
struggling with leaving an authoritarian religion and coping with
the mental and emotional damage of indoctrination. 


Janine Maryland is included in that number.  She stopped by
the virtual studio to share her story with the SOS and fam, and
it is by far one of the most most real and raw
journeys I’ve heard to date. 


She bore her soul with the hopes that her story would encourage
and inspire others who may be or have been on a similar journey.


Janine gets super real about how she’s been excommunicated from
the religion she grew up in, as well has how she’s being
involuntarily forced to distance herself (physically, verbally
and socially) from her family, including her mom.


She also shares details of suicide ideations, her struggle with
mental illness, how she’s now rebuilding her life piece by piece
and learning to live in between the tears.  


Tune in now.


Janine Danielle Maryland is a Nashville, Tennessee native, with a
creative soul.  Her love for poetry was implanted in her
DNA.  Janine’s grandmother and mother both wrote poetry
their entire lives.  This love was further reinforced when
her mother took it upon herself to write a poem for each stage of
her life.  However, surprisingly, Janine didn’t embrace this
hidden talent until her young adulthood.  Each tragic event
in her life moved her to express her emotions through
poetry.  It gave her a sense of closure from various
situations.


Although in Janine’s mid-twenties, she took a detour to pursue
the field of Graphic Design, poetry constantly tugged at her
heart.  She incorporated personal poems in every graduation
and wedding invitation she designed, yet she still was not
filling her inner desire to help others.


Granny’s Conversations, LLC, Greeting Cards for the Soul, was
born after Janine spent ten years in the field of Graphic
Design.  She decided it was time to embark on a journey that
combined her first passion—poetry—with her love for design; this
time to save lives.  In a world where we are constantly
weighed down with depressing news stories, family issues, health
issues and economic woes, just to name a few, we have an urgent
need for encouragement, which is the mission of Granny’s
Conversations, LLC.


Although technology has allowed mankind to achieve the
impossible, along the way it has caused us to loose sight of the
simplicity and comfort received through the written word.  A
personal note from a loved one has a way of slowing us down to
remember what our hearts truly need, to make it just one more
day!
You can find Janine in the following online
spaces:

Facebook: : https://www.facebook.com/grannysconversations/


Instagram: @grannyconvo


Twitter:  @grannysconvo


 


 


If you need support as you start to peel back the layers of your
own emotional trauma, head over to  Shades of
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