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Do you love God, but feel like you’re slowly drifting away from Him, and you don’t know why? Are you scared that questioning your church, or your faith, might mean losing everything you love? Do you second-guess your emotions, your voice, even your own intuition, wondering if you’re the problem? Are you tired from trying to be good enough, faithful enough, spiritual enough, and still feeling like you fall short? Do you feel spiritually homeless, longing for a safe space where you can be honest, messy, and still welcomed?
If that all sounds a little too familiar, take a deep breath. You’ve found a place to land.
Healing Religious Trauma for Christian Women is a podcast made to help you:
- Rebuild your relationship with a safe, loving God.
- Feel emotionally and spiritually safe enough to ask honest questions.
- Hear God’s voice for yourself, without fear, shame, or outside filters.
- Lay down false guilt and come back to your voice, your worth, and your peace.
- Find a gentle, supportive space where spiritual healing is real, and faith still matters.
Hi, I’m Debra.
A woman of faith who spent decades trying to earn God’s love by doing everything “right.” I was the helper, the volunteer, the spiritual overachiever. Underneath all the striving, I felt disconnected, from God, from myself, and from the woman I longed to be.
Like so many of the women I now serve, I kept trying to pray harder, serve more, and fix myself, hoping the fog would lift, the guilt would fade, and I’d finally feel close to God’s love again. None of it worked.
What changed?
I finally realized it wasn’t my faith that was failing. It was the version of it I’d been handed. The one rooted in fear, control, and silence. So I started to untangle the lies, listen for God’s true voice, and walk in the kind of healing that leads to spiritual freedom, not fear.
I built the kind of compassionate, honest, Spirit-led healing journey I couldn’t find anywhere else. One that doesn’t ask you to throw everything away, just to lay down what was never yours to carry. That’s why this podcast exists.
If you’re ready to untangle what’s been keeping you stuck, and find real spiritual healing that doesn’t ask you to lose your faith in the process, this podcast is for you.
Each episode will help you rebuild your trust in God, rest from spiritual performance, and find the voice you were never meant to silence. You’ll hear real stories, soul-grounded teaching, and healing truths rooted in compassion and true connection.
You can’t heal what you can’t name.
Take the Quiz at ReligiousTraumaQuiz.com to find which of the 12 Hidden Aftershocks of Religious Trauma™ are keeping you stuck, and get your free Essentials Starter Kit: my book, mini-course, reading circle, and a community of women who get it.
Join the Coming Home Journey™ at TheComingHomeJourney.com. Six months of group coaching through the 5 Phases of Spiritual Healing. From stuck to free, from exile to home. Find your voice, heal your faith, and feel close to God again.
No perfection required. Just bring your questions and your favorite tea. This space was made to feel like home.
ABOUT
Debra Shafer is a spiritual healing coach for Christian women and the creator of the Coming Home Journey™, a gentle, soul-level path that helps women untangle religious trauma, rebuild trust in God, and find peace without walking away from their faith. She is the founder of the Healing Religious Trauma Circle and brings together decades of personal ministry, biblical psychology, and trauma-informed mentoring. She knows what it’s like to love God deeply while wrestling with fear, shame, and silence, and she now walks women home to the God they always hoped was real. Around here, the tea is hot, the wisdom is hard-won, and no question is off limits.
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Thursday Apr 30, 2026
Thursday Apr 30, 2026
What if you haven’t been failing at healing — you just never had a safe enough place to do it?
If you’ve tried to grow, to heal, to open up in your faith journey — and something keeps holding you back — this episode is for you. Not because something is wrong with you. But because healing requires safety. And religious trauma often robs us of exactly that.
In this episode, Debra introduces the concept of a safe growth container — the foundational, protected space where real transformation becomes possible. She also names something that rarely gets talked about: the wound of being witnessed in our pain and having no one intervene. And why healing in the presence of others isn’t optional — it’s essential.
Through the story of a young mother whose walls quietly went up after one ordinary moment at her faith community — and what happened the first time she finally felt truly heard — you’ll understand why safety isn’t a luxury in healing. It’s the foundation.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why religious trauma makes growth nearly impossible — and why that’s not your fault
- The hidden wound of witnessed pain — why it stings even more than the original hurt
- What a safe space actually requires — and how to recognize it anywhere in your life
- Eight agreements that create real safety — not rules handed down from above, but promises everyone makes together
- What true empowerment actually means — and why it’s God-given restoration, not self-generated power
Journal prompt: Where in your life have you been trying to grow in unsafe conditions? And is there a moment when your pain was witnessed by others — and no one said anything? What would it mean to finally have that seen and held?
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Healing truth: You haven’t been failing at healing. You’ve been trying to grow without a safe place to do it — and without being truly seen. That changes now. |
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🎧 Ready to go deeper? → Do you suffer from religious trauma? Find out! ReligiousTraumaQuiz.com → Read Debra’s story and unravel your own. HeIsEnoughBook.com — a redemptive memoir and healing guide. → Ready for complete transformation? TheComingHomeJourney.com About Debra Debra Shafer is a spiritual healing coach for Christian women and creator of the Coming Home Journey. She helps women untangle religious trauma, rebuild trust in God, and find peace without walking away from their faith. Known for her voice of gentle clarity and truth, Debra walks women home to the God they always hoped was real. Listener Love If this episode helped you finally name why healing has felt so hard — and gave you hope that something safer is possible — would you share it with one woman who needs to hear it too? Someone in your life may be trying to grow in the cold, carrying her story alone. This could be the episode that changes that. A quick review on Apple Podcasts helps more women find their way here. 💛 This is soul-level restoration for Christian women healing from religious trauma who long for inner peace, spiritual healing, and true connection with God. Through addressing generational trauma and creating space where all of you is truly welcome, we help you discover that you were never the problem — you just needed a safe place to grow. |
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