Coming Out of the International House of Prayer (IHOP) Mike Bickle Cult Life After Dogma 2020-12-18 | The International House of Prayer (IHOP) Cult is a large Christian, Charismatic Cult that heavily emphasizes End Times teachings, fear of hell, divine terror and wrath mixed abusively with love, brainwashing, sexual repression, political fundamentalism, and total submission to its cult ideologies. Let's discuss a few of its core abuses and how to heal from its religious traumasIf you would like support with your religious trauma and finding healthy spirituality that suits you, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.php to learn about my Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Program.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on religious trauma and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.orgJoin our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Surviving & Thriving the Holidays with Religious Trauma, Setting Boundaries Life After Dogma 2023-12-20 | The holidays can be a challenging and triggering time if you've experienced religious trauma and will be spending time with loved ones who might not share or respect your beliefs and journey.In this webinar, we go over the fundamentals of how to set and hold healthy boundaries with loved ones with religious or political differences, on your terms, in a firm yet loving way that also invites relational connection - if that is what you would like. We also discuss mindset issues of shame and feeling like you need to defend or apologize for your beliefs or deconversion. Additionally, we learn how to name the elephant in the room, "We have different religious beliefs!" without having to make a big scene of it. And also, we address fears you may have of confrontation, and how to navigate situations involving disagreements about religious matters or heated moments.You have NOTHING to be ashamed of and EVERYTHING to be proud of. The fact that you were able to recognize and choose to come out of a harmful religious environment demonstrates tremendous integrity and courage and is a huge accomplishment. You are a whole person with a beautiful life journey and you owe no one an explanation or apology.Yet, a change has taken place, and changes can disrupt familiar family and relational dynamics. As those who embrace our healing journeys, it is often incumbent upon us to redefine acceptable, unacceptable, and desirable relational dynamics.We discuss practical ways of taking care of yourself and holding your present journey and beliefs or lack thereof with dignity, respect, and pride in situations where relatives and friends might openly or covertly challenge or pressure you.If you would like support in healing your religious trauma, book an Inner Freedom Session here: innerfreedomsession.as.me/?appointmentType=18852683About Andrew Jasko: Psychotherapist, BACP, IFS Therapist, MA, M.Div. - I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As an Evangelical, Pentecostal Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Unexpectedly, I found healing through practices like meditation, psychedelics, and breathwork that introduced me to profound mystical experiences for the first time, unlike anything I had ever experienced in my previous religious life. I learned to integrate spirituality with rationality and science in a grounded, healthy way. My passion is to help you in your spiritual, religious, or life transition to heal and live an authentic, fully expressed life. I currently study Indian psychology, philosophy, and spirituality at the University of Oxford and support clients in healing trauma through Internal Family Systems therapy and other methods.lifeafterdogma.org
Is it the Dark Night of the Soul, or is Your Religion Not Working for You? Life After Dogma 2022-01-20 | Many people who lack the spiritual experiences of divine love or hearing God's voice promised to them by their religion are told to hang on and keep believing because "it's the dark night of the soul." This term refers to a period of spiritual desolation and lack that is often believed to be a kind of divine test and right of passage. God is intentionally withdrawing his loving presence, the teaching goes, in order to make your faith stronger. Are you experiencing the dark night of the soul, or do you have genuine and valid doubts that you're not allowing yourself to face? Could it be that there's actually something off or untrue about the spiritual teachings you're receiving or the religion you believe in and that this is an experience (or lack of experience) that all the right belief in the world and religious practice won't make go away? Or is it something you should endure for a while? The dark night of the soul can sometimes represent an attempt at repressing and denying the reality of our experience in favor of what we wish to be true. It is important that we allow ourselves to ask ourselves and our teachers the hard questions that we may not want to face.If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.meIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/Join our Facebook Support Group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Why the Christian Right Opposes Abortion & Roe vs Wade, Debunking Christian Beliefs Against Abortion Life After Dogma 2021-12-06 | Right now, the United States Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe vs. Wade, making abortion illegal in many parts of the US. This is primarily because people are trying to legislate extremist religious views. About one-third of the US is Evangelical or Conservative Christian. Many of these Christians believe that abortion is the single most important political issue because they view it as an ongoing genocide provoking God's wrath, WWWIII style, on the United States. In this video, I will go over what the Bible actually teaches about abortion (it never directly references it) and the sanctity of life, debunking and absurdifying fundamentalist religious perspectives and demonstrating how their own views are inconsistent. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/
How to Relate to Your Religious Past? Dealing with Regret, Lost Time, and Moving Forward Life After Dogma 2021-10-23 | If you've left a harmful religion, you may feel you've been robbed of the best years of your life and that there's this huge gaping hole in your life experience you don't know how to make sense of. You gave the best of your time, energy, heart, and maybe career to something that now feels like a lie.And it feels like it was all for nothing. None of it means anything to you anymore in the present.Not only this, but you missed out on key life experiences like sex and secular culture, and you have to make up for lost time and play catch up to the rest of the world. And religious trauma is the gift that keeps on giving. You have to deal with the continued impact of the past in the present as you heal and grieve and learn how to build a new life. As a result of all this, you may feel stuck in the past; in regret, despair, and anger, not feeling like there's time left for you to experience a meaningful life and not knowing how to move on.You can learn to relate to your past traumas and challenging experiences with harmful religion and other life events in a way that enables you to feel empowered, confident, and excited about your present and future life. See my thoughts based on my own experience and my work with clients in this video. Please comment with your own suggestions and what's helped you!If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/relig...
Fear of Making Wrong Decisions, Wasting Your Life, Running Out of Time from Religious Indoctrination Life After Dogma 2021-10-12 | Many fundamentalist groups like Evangelical Christianity attach grave consequences to decisions. As a result, people are taught to be hypervigilant about their time and decisions, seeking to attain divine perfection in all things and to avoid the regret of having wasted their life. This can result in paralysis about decisions, an inability to cope with life's inevitable ups and downs, and fear of putting yourself out there again and getting hurt. These perfectionistic, do-or-die mentalities are also mirrored in most modern cultures. How can we heal from these toxic religious and cultural mindsets?I’m Andrew Jasko, M.Div., MA Counseling Psychology in progress. As a former Princeton Seminary educated minister, I had to leave my religious faith and community because of the severe psychological trauma I experienced. After researching religious trauma for years and helping hundreds of people to heal their religious abuse, I am considered an expert in healing religious trauma. I am an acclaimed speaker, writer, and coach in the field of religious trauma and the integration of psychology and spirituality. My clients hire me to heal and find healthy, authentic spirituality that suits them. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.meIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/1814392878715410
Healing from Bethel Church School of Supernatural Ministry Bill Johnson Cult, Faith Healing Abuse Life After Dogma 2021-08-19 | Bethel Church in Redding, CA is a large charismatic Christian group that promotes faith healing through many false and unverifiable miracle claims. It uses emotionalism and hype to promote its right-wing political fundamentalist agenda and psychologically abusive doctrines to control the sexuality and psychology of its membership. It also practices conversion therapy, attempting to change the sexuality of gay people. Have you suffered as a member of this group, or are you questioning your faith in isolation? Have you come out of it and have a story to tell about your experience? Please share in the comments.I’m Andrew Jasko, M.Div., MA Counseling Psychology in progress. As a former Princeton Seminary educated minister, I had to leave my religious faith and community because of the severe psychological trauma I experienced. After researching religious trauma for years and helping hundreds of people to heal their religious abuse, I am considered an expert in healing religious trauma. I am an acclaimed speaker, writer, and coach in the field of religious trauma and the integration of psychology and spirituality. My clients hire me to heal and find healthy, authentic spirituality that suits them. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Deconstructing Evangelical Christianitys View of the Bible: Bible Idol Worship, Blasphemy Life After Dogma 2021-08-14 | In its current views of the Bible, Evangelical Christianity is blasphemous, according to its own standards of blasphemy. Those who teach that the Bible contains no errors and is the sole revelation of God commit blasphemy in so doing, ascribing evil and falsehood to the God they proclaim and creating an idol of the Bible. Evangelicals teach that the Bible is the inerrant, perfect word of God, and solely sufficient for spiritual life. They believe the sacred texts of other religions are invalid and evil, and other religions must submit to their ideology. These beliefs force them to ascribe humanity's grossest evils to God, since the Bible ascribes many gross evils to God, such as genocide, sexual repression, slavery, and hellfire torture. The Bible also contains many obvious errors, and to proclaim that it does not is to falsely speak for the "God of Truth."Moreover, the Bible represents the ideas of a small set of ethnic peoples living in the ancient near east - especially Israelite, Greek, and Roman peoples. Proclaiming the Bible to be universal truth for all people is racist and colonialist. It results in the rejection of God in other sacred texts and expressions outside of the narrow confines of the Christian tribe. For many other reasons covered in this video, Evangelical Christianity fails to uphold the high view of God it proclaims, because of its fundamental ideologies about the Bible that it defines itself by as a religious sect.I’m Andrew Jasko, M.Div., MA Counseling Psychology in progress. As a former Princeton Seminary educated minister, I had to leave my religious faith and community because of the severe psychological trauma I experienced. After researching religious trauma for years and helping hundreds of people to heal their religious abuse, I am considered an expert in healing religious trauma. I am an acclaimed speaker, writer, and coach in the field of religious trauma and the integration of psychology and spirituality. My clients hire me to heal and find healthy, authentic spirituality that suits them. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Is Yoga Demonic? A Critique of Doreen Virtue and Christian Opposition to Yoga Life After Dogma 2021-08-12 | Many Christians teach that practicing yoga will get you possessed by a demon. They believe that yoga is inherently pagan, evil, and incompatible with Christianity. Is this true and are their portrayals of yoga accurate? I examine the teachings of popular Christian fundamentalist and anti-yoga guru Doreen Virtue on yoga to see whether they line up with how yoga originated and how it is actually practiced. I’m Andrew Jasko, M.Div., MA Counseling Psychology in progress. As a former Princeton Seminary educated minister, I had to leave my religious faith and community because of the severe psychological trauma I experienced. After spending thousands of hours and dollars on my healing, I am considered an expert in healing religious trauma. I am an acclaimed speaker, writer, and coach in the field of religious trauma and the integration of psychology and spirituality. My clients hire me to heal and find healthy, authentic spirituality that suits them. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether my Life After Dogma Coaching Program is a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
The Doctrine of Original Sin is Totally Depraved, Psychologically Harmful & False Life After Dogma 2021-08-06 | Evangelical Christianity and the Bible teach that humans are fundamentally depraved and born deserving of hell. This is morally egregious and psychologically harmful. It also contradicts what we know about human psychology; why people do harmful and evil things. How can we heal from this toxic ideology that results in self-hatred and feeling broken and unworthy? Is there a better way to view our evil and harmful inclinations that results in compassion and healing, rather than eternal punishment and dehumanization?If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpI work with people to heal their religious trauma and discover their healthy, authentic spiritual connection. I specialize in healing from Pentecostal and Evangelical Christianity.In this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustraumaI’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
Coming out of the Assemblies of God (AoG). Deconstructing Psychological Cult Abuse, Religious Trauma Life After Dogma 2021-03-16 | The Assemblies of God (AoG) is the world's largest Pentecostal denomination. It is a fundamentalist Christian group that promotes many psychologically abusive, cultish, and harmful teachings. What are the manipulations of the AoG, and how can you heal if you've experienced them? This video deconstructs indoctrinations and highlights harmful practices.If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpI work with people to heal their religious trauma and discover their healthy, authentic spiritual connection. I specialize in healing from Pentecostal and Evangelical Christianity.In this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/relig...I’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
God is Going to Hell Life After Dogma 2021-03-15 | If God created hell, he deserves to go there more than anyone else. By his own standards of justice, God is the worst criminal. He is in fact diabolical. Arguments that human conceptions of justice do not apply to God are cop-outs. Those who design laws and enforce them are more accountable than anyone else. God projects his guilt onto humanity and disavows his responsibility for his sins. The person who hired the hitman is more guilty of murder than the hitman. If you fear going to hell, and if hell does in fact exist, take comfort that you will be spending eternity there with God. If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/schedule.phpI work with people to heal their religious trauma and discover their healthy, authentic spiritual connection.In this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/relig...I’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
Deconstructing the Sinner’s Prayer and Altar Call: Religious Psychological Manipulation Life After Dogma 2021-03-13 | The sinner's prayer is the rite of cult initiation for Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian churches. Similar rituals exist in other cults. The prayer is a psychologically manipulative rite that functions to relieve anxiety by inviting a strongman to take over your soul, to give up your responsibility, and to surrender your agency to the community, its text, and deity. This is an abusive, psychologically damaging practice. The prayer translated into its manipulations:1. "I confess I'm a sinner" = I am powerless, broken. I need to be saved from myself and a maniacal universe. Disempowerment, low self-view, self-degradation. 2. " Forgive me" Emotional repression, not real forgiveness. Asking forgiveness for things that aren’t your fault!3. "Jesus is Lord" = my agency isn’t enough, take away my responsibility. I can’t work through my problems. I need an easy doctrinal solution that shuts down all ambiguity and confusion.4. "Come into my heart and take over my life" I surrender and invite a spirit to possess me. Take me over. I can’t trust myself. I need to merge to be healed. Losing yourself, giving up your identity.Initiations take place during the group ritual of the altar call, a ritual that creates a sense of panic and utilizes other psychological techniques to convince people they need to join the cult community.The Altar Call: Preachers call people to go up to the altar in front of the community to pray the sinner's prayer. They incite fear, creating panic instead of inspiring people to make an informed decision, triggering a fight, flight, or freeze response. They create paranoia, teaching that the world is far more dangerous than it is. This inflates your problems to a universe-sized proportion, so you need an infinite deity to solve them. These practices induce obsessive-compulsive (OCD) thought-stopping and confession that reinforce anxiety and alter the way the brain functions. The prayer creates the anxiety it promises to relieve!Do you feel isolated and disempowered by trauma, spiritually disconnected, or psychologically traumatized by religion, with emotional and spiritual distress in your life? If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/. I work with people to heal their religious trauma and discover their healthy, authentic spiritual connection.In this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustraumaI’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
Healing from Religious Community Rejection, Shunning, & Finding Self-Acceptance Life After Dogma 2021-03-11 | We all experience rejection from communities, families, and friends, especially if we leave a religious fundamentalist community. This can result in rage and a feeling of worthlessness, low self-esteem, and trying to find our sense of self-worth through the acceptance of others. This can never work, for worth has to do with knowing who we are, a sense of inner belonging. Once we learn to come into contact with what makes us feel alive, our essential nature, and living that out in the world, we become less affected by the reactions of others. We are not sinful but whole and worthy of love at the core. Learn how to heal and come into contact with yourself in this video.Do you feel isolated and disempowered by trauma, spiritually disconnected, suffering from a major loss or life transition, or psychologically traumatized by religion, with emotional and spiritual distress in your life? If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me/In this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org/ Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/relig...I’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
When Spirituality & Science Become Escapism from Suffering. Ideological Dissociation from Life Life After Dogma 2021-02-24 | Many of us have been trained to reject suffering and therefore reject life and ourselves within life through secular and spiritual ideologies. We can never change the fundamental spectrum of experience that is life, which will always include suffering. What is wrong with spiritual and religious ideologies that teach that suffering is bad, temporary, or something that needs fixing? How can we relate to suffering in a healthy way?Do you feel isolated and disempowered by trauma, spiritually disconnected, suffering from a major loss or life transition, or psychologically traumatized by religion, with emotional and spiritual distress in your life? If you would like to talk with me for coaching support, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.meIn this session, my intention is to help you feel deeply heard and supported, gain clarity, learn a few expert tips, and if it seems like I can support you further, see whether one of my Transform Trauma into Power and Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Programs are a good fit for you.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on psychological healing, religious trauma, and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org Join our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustraumaI’m Andrew Jasko, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Masters in Counseling in Progress, and I work to help you transform your trauma into the place of your power and connect to a healthy, authentic spirituality that works for you (whether that’s as a spiritual not religious, atheist, religious, transitioning, or agnostic identifying person). I was born into a minister’s family and became a preacher and missionary to India, after studying theology at Wheaton College and Princeton Seminary. As a Christian, my relationship with God was my passion, but unhealthy religious teachings caused me an anxiety disorder, sexual repression, and spiritual disillusionment. I felt alone, traumatized, and abandoned by the divine. After an agonizing crisis of faith, I rejected religion and spirituality. Then, I reintegrated a healthy spirituality through mystical, spiritual, and mindful practices. My passion is to help you to heal from your trauma and disconnection and connect with your authentic spiritual wholeness.
Religious Sexual Repression is a Psychic Curse Life After Dogma 2021-01-16 | Harmful religions use sexuality to manipulate and control people. Sexually oppressive teachings function as a psychological and spiritual curse. A curse is an ideology, energy, or intention that is used to harm or control. When we surrender our bodily agency to an outsider, we lose access to our creativity and aliveness. Sexuality is tied to our spiritual vitality - it includes our sense of who we are, our power and confidence, and how we express ourselves. How can we find freedom from the curse of religious sexual repression? If you would like support with your religious trauma and finding healthy spirituality that suits you, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: innerfreedomsession.as.me to learn about my Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Program.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on religious trauma and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.org
Finding Relief from Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit and the Unforgiveable Sin Life After Dogma 2020-12-11 | The Bible speaks of an unforgivable sin and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This harmful religious teaching torments devoted Christians, people who are questioning their beliefs, and those who have left the religion. It is impossible to know whether or not you have committed this sin because the teaching is ambiguous. Therefore, people live in mental torment wondering whether they have committed it or being convinced they have committed it and there is nothing they can do. Let's debunk this doctrine and help you find relief, whether you are a Christian, someone simply questioning and experiencing spiritual disillusionment, or no longer identify with Christianity.If you would like support with your religious trauma and finding healthy spirituality that suits you, apply for a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: calendly.com/lifeafterdogma to learn about my Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Program.Subscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on religious trauma and spirituality: lifeafterdogma.orgJoin our Facebook support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
The Law of Attractions Psychological & Spiritual Harms. Nondual Manifestation as an Alternative Life After Dogma 2020-12-07 | Have you benefited from the Law of Attraction (manifestation) but also worried about its disturbing tendencies? 😱 For instance,➜Obsessive worrying about your negative thoughts creating disaster➜Superficial shifting of emotions, avoidance of healing and trauma work➜Hyper-responsibility and hyper-individualism➜Ignoring structural oppression and blaming people for their suffering➜Financial manipulation by LOA teachers➜ Overemphasis on materialism "health and wealth" and ignoring higher spiritual principles➜ Contradiction of major mystical traditionsWhat if there is a better, spiritual way to manifest that preserves the benefits of the Law of Attraction but prevents the harms? 🤔Would you want to know more?Blog Article: lifeafterdogma.org/2020/10/14/law-of-attraction-harms-nondual-manifestation💥If you'd like to work with me 💥 to learn how to transform your trauma into the birthplace of your power, heal from religious and spiritual trauma, Click this link or PM me to schedule up a Free Inner Breakthrough Session, and for information about the Transform Trauma into Power Coaching Program or Healing Religious Trauma Coaching Program:calendly.com/lifeafterdogma
Healing Religious & Spiritual Body Hatred, Disconnection, and Rejection of the Material World Life After Dogma 2020-12-07 | Do you have trouble accepting bodily pleasure, sex, money, and the material world? Religions and spiritualities often teach people to disconnect from their bodies, reject sexuality, pleasure, and view the body as evil and inferior to spiritual pursuits. We are also taught to use spirituality as a way to escape bodily suffering and challenges. Many suffer chronic body disconnection as a result. How can we heal? Article on this topic: lifeafterdogma.org/2019/04/19/body-healingSchedule a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Coaching session with me and learn about the Healing Religious and Spiritual Trauma Coaching Program: calendly.com/lifeafterdogmaJoin our FB Support Group for Healing Religious and Spiritual Trauma: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Debunking Demonic Possession, Casting Out Exorcism: Healing from Indoctrination About Demons Life After Dogma 2020-12-04 | Many religions terrorize their followers with teachings about demonic possession and demonic influence. Sects of Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Charismatic Christianity heavily emphasize demons. This video explores harmful practices and teachings about demons and how they are used to manipulate people, experiences with dark entities on psychedelic journeys, traumatizing experiences of exorcism, and how to heal from religious trauma related to demon indoctrination, fear of evil spirits, and having an exorcism performed on you.If you would like support and to learn about my Healing from Religious Trauma Coaching Program, schedule a free Inner Freedom Breakthrough Session: calendly.com/lifeafterdogmaSubscribe to my blog for articles and free resources on religious trauma and nondual spirituality: lifeafterdogma.orgJoin our FB support group: facebook.com/groups/religioustrauma
Reclaiming Sexuality from Religion, Andrew Jasko at California Institute for Integral Studies Life After Dogma 2018-12-09 | Please consider donating to Life After Dogma to support the research and advocacy work of healing religious trauma if you benefited from this video: PayPal lifeafterdogma@gmail.com. Do you or someone you love struggle with sexuality because of religious experience? Do you work with clients dealing with sexual shame? Religious sexual repression and shaming often results in sexual dysfunction, abuse, addiction, LGBTQ suicides, and broken relationships. In this seminar, we will begin the healing process, addressing harmful religious teachings and practices. Formerly a minister, I help people heal from traumatic religion. This seminar will also address narratives about sexual morality that impact all of us who live in a society influenced by Judeo-Christian norms. Religious treatment of sex may be the most common type of sexual abuse in our world. Many of us were taught that our basic sexual impulses are sinful, even punishable by hell. Rejection of sexuality can also impact us in areas of life not directly related to sex, stifling our creativity and ability to relate to ourselves and other people. By addressing our experience of religious teachings and practices, we can begin the process of reclaiming sexuality from religion. This event is also intended for helping professionals (therapists, clergy, sex coaches) who work with people struggling with sexuality because of experiences with a religious tradition.
