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Faith and Trauma Center

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A resource and training website exploring the intersections of religion, trauma, mental health, and healing founded by @christielove.bsky.social‬ & Holly Madden. Also the home of the Faith and Trauma Center Podcast.

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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 07/08/2025
Many with religious trauma struggle to be proud of themselves and celebrate their successes because pride was always negative and something to feel guilty about. Self esteem is seen as selfish. Healing is learning to celebrate yourself and accept that you are worthy of compliments.
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Christie Love @christielove.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sacred spaces can cause trauma both by their words and actions, AND by their silence and compliance with systems of injustice and oppression.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 03/08/2025
In case you need to hear this today.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 01/08/2025
We were previously The Flipped Table Collective, but we have a new name, new logo, new website, and new podcast!!!!! Check out our new look and content at www.faithandtraumacenter.org
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 08/06/2025
"It’s okay to distance yourself from spaces that demand a version of you that no longer is true. Belonging shouldn’t depend on an illusion." Cole Arthur Riley, @BlackLiturgies (2023)
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 07/06/2025
Looking for a great resource to help talk to kids about #PrideMonth? Check out this resource in our library:
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PRIDE for Kids — The Flipped Table Collective
This resource provides talking points, activity and community ideas, and links to additional resources to engage with the topic of PRIDE for kids!
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 07/06/2025
"Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it." Bayard Rustin, To the House of Representatives (1969)
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 06/06/2025
One of our amazing content creators put together this guide to using pronouns correctly. We invite you to explore this resource that can be used in your faith community, non-profit organization, or personal relationships.
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A Simple Guide to Correctly Using Pronouns — The Flipped Table Collective
This guide offers simple guidance on how to correctly use pronouns in all environments. This guide can be used both virtually or downloaded as a poster.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 06/06/2025
How is your faith community centering, celebrating, and honoring #PrideMonth?
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 05/06/2025
Back in March, we recorded a podcast about deconstructing gender in these difficult times. This is a beautiful and powerful conversation for faith leaders and faith communities - take time to engage with this conversation here:
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Conversation #80: Deconstructing Gender in Times of Adversity
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 05/06/2025
In honor of #PrideMonth check out some of these great resources from QueerTheology.com - www.queertheology.com/resources/
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QueerTheology.com | Resources for LGBTQ+ Christians and Supporters - Queer Theology
Queerness is already sacred we want to show you how After 10 years as the longest running LGBTQ+ spirituality podcast, […]
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 04/06/2025
Our Co-Founder @christielove.bsky.social‬ created a playlist for Pride to honor those who have deconstructed and are working to heal from religious trauma. Check it out here:
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Deconstructed Pride 🌈
Playlist · Christie Love · 69 items · 3 saves
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 04/06/2025
Flipped Table Co-Founder Holly Madden created this beautiful meditation for the queer individual- to honor the struggle of surviving in our societies and to celebrate the miracle that is queer lives. Check it out here: www.flippedtablecollective.com/ftc-resource... #ProgressiveFaith #PRIDEMonth
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Honoring Queer Lives Meditations — The Flipped Table Collective
This 15 minute guided embodiment meditation is written for the queer individual- to honor the struggle of surviving in our societies and to celebrate the miracle that is queer lives.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 03/06/2025
"...the ways in which many LGBT people have been taught to hate ourselves from an early age, pride is an important act of spiritual healing and witness that allows us to develop a healthy sense of ourselves, our communities, and those who we love. -Patrick Cheng,“ The Spiritual Significance of Pride
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 03/06/2025
Are you signed up to receive our email newsletter? We send it twice a month with updates about resources, trainings, and other information! Click here to sign up:
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 02/06/2025
We share some of our favorite Queer Theology titles on our website in the resource library! Check them out here:
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Book Recommendations on Queer Theology — The Flipped Table Collective
Below are some titles to explore to learn more about Queer Theology. This list is updated when new recommendations are released.
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Christie Love @christielove.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
No matter how much healing work you have done… triggers can still catch you off guard. Be gentle with yourself when it happens. Healing is not linear and your trauma is not a source of shame.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 29/05/2025
Two great tools to learn about that can be used to support those who are working to understand and improve their mental health is the Internal Family System Model by Dr. Richard Schwartz and the Enneagram. These resource can help you get started!
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 28/05/2025
Here are some additional recommended resources for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 27/05/2025
May has been Mental Health Awareness Month. Here are some titles that we recommend to faith leaders and those in helping professions to add to their collections of resources.
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Christie Love @christielove.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
In 2021, I published a book called God of the Gaps, about finding faith in the in-between spaces of our lives. Today, I am thinking of the gap between the values and principles that so many gave their lives to protect in this nation.... and what our country has become. I am grieving the gap today.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 26/05/2025
What was the high point of your week last week?
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 25/05/2025
If you are looking for a way to regulate your emotions and responses this week, we want to offer you this yoga flow with @hollyrosemadden.bsky.social‬ to help you center and ground.
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Yoga Offering: Yoga for Times Such as This — The Flipped Table Collective
Yoga Offering: Yoga for Times Such as This
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 25/05/2025
Participate in our online project called "Dear Church." You can write an anonymous open letter to THE church.
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Dear Church" Project
The purpose of this project is to give individuals the opportunity to write an anonymous letter to either THE CHURCH (Wider church/organized religion), their local church, or a combination of both.…
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 24/05/2025
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Greg Smith @sowhatfaith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A church that chooses complacency may continue to hope for longevity but does so without a sense of direction of how that will be accomplished. –Jeffrey A Nelson (The Unintentional Interim, 2025)
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United Church of Christ @unitedchurch.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Quote from Witness for Justice, "Faith-in-Flesh," by Rev. Rachel Hackenberg, Publisher, @thepilgrimpress.bsky.social: 👉🏾 Read the full blog here: ow.ly/W5b150VYeyp
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Interfaith Alliance @interfaithalliance.org · 24/05/2025
This Pride, people of faith are facing a choice. Will we stay silent or speak love out loud? We are choosing to speak out. Join us! #RecommitToPride with people of faith across the United States! Sign the pledge here: interfaithalliance.org/recommittopride
Text-based graphic says "Sign the pledge to recommit to pride. As people of faith, we approach Pride Month this year recognizing the extreme challenges faced by many within the LGBTQ+ community. This year, those of us from diverse faith traditions and beliefs are showing up and refusing to back down. Together, we Recommit to Pride."
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 24/05/2025
The church needs more innovators, not gatekeepers. Just because something is a tradition does not mean that it should be exempt from exploration, updating, and growth.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 23/05/2025
Writing from lived experience, @hollyrosemadden.bsky.social‬ created an important resource for faith leaders about supporting survivors of sexual violence in a trauma-informed way. You can explore it for free in our resource library:
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Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Rape — The Flipped Table Collective
This resource provides practical and trauma-informed steps in providing support for someone who discloses an experience of sexual violence and trauma.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 23/05/2025
Check out this trauma terms glossary in our resource library to help you begin the work of understanding the language of trauma-informed work:
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Trauma Terms Glossary — The Flipped Table Collective
We recognize that in many of our resources, videos, and workshops we use many trauma terms that some members may not be familiar with. For this reason, our team has compiled a list of commonly used…
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Interfaith Alliance @interfaithalliance.org · 22/05/2025
VICTORY at the Supreme Court for religious freedom and the separation of church & state!
graphic says "BREAKING NEWS: In a win for religious freedom and the separation of church and state, the Supreme Court’s split 4-4 decision today means that Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars." In a photo below, two Christian leaders stand in front of the Supreme Court. A sign says "Notice: The separation of church and state is good for both."
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Christie Love @christielove.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Toxic perfectionism is often a byproduct of high control religious environments and religious trauma. Never feeling good enough can have longterm impacts on our inner dialog and our self esteem. Here is a list of symptoms of toxic perfectionism that I use to talk about this issue.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 22/05/2025
What is the biggest challenge that you are facing in faith leadership this week?
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Presbyterian Outlook @presoutlook.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A free hymn for Memorial Day Daniel Heath offers alternative verses to the "Star Spangled Banner" using language inspired by Amanda Gorman's poetry. #MemorialDay @davidsoncollege.bsky.social‬
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A free hymn for Memorial Day - The Presbyterian Outlook
Daniel Heath offers alternative verses to the "Star Spangled Banner" using language inspired by Amanda Gorman's poetry.
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United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities @welcome-to-united.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Are you a faith leader who wants to learn more about faithful ways to support trans lives? Join United’s Leadership Center for Social Justice, our Social Transformation program, and three community partners on May 30 to explore the possibilities! 🏳️‍⚧️ Learn more at the link below!
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Justice and Joy: Empowering Religious Support for Trans Lives - United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Join us on May 30 for Justice and Joy. Come to learn ways to further the rights of trans people though our roles as people of faith.
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RNS @rns.org · 21/05/2025
The first few aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday following nearly three months of Israel’s blockade of food, medicine and other supplies, as Israel acknowledged growing pressure from allies including the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/05/21/f...
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First few aid trucks enter Gaza but allies threaten Israel with sanctions and urge more
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Shortly after Israel announced the first trucks entered Gaza, the U.K., France and Canada issued a sharply worded joint statement calling the aid “wholly inadequate.”
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 22/05/2025
"Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Imagine if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary." Rachel Held Evans
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 21/05/2025
Check out this Call to Worship in our Liturgy Collection written by @christielove.bsky.social‬ that centers doubt and questions in a worship service:
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Centering Doubt — The Flipped Table Collective
Written by Rev. Dr. Christie Love In some sacred spaces, truths are proclaimed loudly while questions are discouraged and doubts are silenced. In this sacred space, we acknowledge that doubt does…
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 21/05/2025
Need an outreach project for your faith community? Create a water refill station for neighbors in need to use to stay hydrated this summer & reduce one-time plastic use! Details in our resource library:
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Building Water Stations for Your Community — The Flipped Table Collective
Building and maintaining a water refill station at your faith community’s building is a great way to meet the practical needs of unsheltered neighbors during the hot summer months.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 20/05/2025
What is a book that you have read recently that you would recommend to others? Tell us what it is and why you loved it!
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Christie Love @christielove.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Losing faith: Rural religious colleges are among the most endangered
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Losing faith: Rural religious colleges are among the most endangered
Some religious colleges and universities are cutting programs. Others are seeking mergers to reduce costs and expand offerings.
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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Unquestioned loyalty to a powerful figure no matter how much damage they cause is the characteristic of a cult. Faithful loyalty to the poor, the powerless, the abused, and the vulnerable, advocating on their behalf to the powerful is the characteristic of the gospel of Jesus.” - Ben Cremer
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 20/05/2025
Big News!!!!!! All of our yoga resources are now free and accessible to everyone to provide support on your healing journeys! Check them all out on our website:
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 19/05/2025
Hugging a tree helps to regulate your nervous system, lower your blood pressure, and decrease inflammation in your body. When was the last time that you hugged a tree?
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 19/05/2025
Learn more about the Religious Trauma research that our co-founder @christielove.bsky.social is working on and how you can be involved!
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Religious Trauma Research — The Flipped Table Collective
Rev. Dr. Christie Love is the co-founder of The Flipped Table Collective. She is passionate about the research, understanding, and advocacy around issues related to Religious Trauma and…
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 18/05/2025
For those who used to get up on Sunday morning and go to church, but no longer feel safe or welcome to do so, remember that holiness is not confined to a space or a place. Take time to connect with the wonder and awe of the world around you today and let nature soothe your soul.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 18/05/2025
Something to ponder today.
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Faith and Trauma Center @faithandtraumacenter.org · 17/05/2025
We are spending the weekend dreaming, planning, creating, and making changes! We are so excited to share with you all that we are working on! Stay connected to updates by subscribing to our newsletter
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