Dear Fellow

Sojourner, seeker, exevangelical, trauma healer and anti-fundamentalist

Dear Fellow began as my love-letter to friends and comrades who share common interests, journeys, and feelings. It was an expansion of thoughts I shared on social media and a newsletter about my writing life as I focus on life after religious trauma.

But what I’ve discovered in listening to survivors is that fundamentalist thinking persists in our relationships, behavior, and lifestyles long after we leave religion. Change truly requires breaking down long-held assumptions and belief systems, and as I unpack that myself, I’m converting this to a column where I explore what it means to be an anti-fundamentalist.

I share my experience and viewpoint––but I am not a therapist. I’m a survivor, a mother of five, and a friend. I want to resist binary extremes and rigid thinking and maybe you do too.

You may be my fellow:

• sojourner

• seeker

• empty-nester

• exevangelical

• survivor

• neighbor

• writer

• maker

• reader…

And if you are, maybe you’ll relate to this deconstruction journey toward intuition, compassion, empathy, autonomy, and healing.

In the meantime, tell your friends! Looking for community engagement, my discord server, or my SHINE trauma-healing resources? They’re on my website, along with my videos categorized by topic.

Shine on, friends.

Tia