Module 10: The Living Experience of Healing

This final module reframes religious trauma and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) as chronic, body-based conditions that require long-term, integrative care rather than linear recovery. While traditional trauma models often emphasize resolution or symptom elimination, this approach centers sustainability, embodiment, and pacing. Clinicians will explore three key reasons why religious trauma must be understood through a chronic condition lens: its origins in prolonged relational and systemic harm, its somatic imprint on the nervous system, and the culturally reinforced shame survivors often feel when healing is non-linear. By shifting focus from “getting over it” to “living with and through it,” this module encourages practitioners to support integration over resolution—reducing shame, validating long-term processes, and honoring the body as a central site of healing.