Reclaiming our Relationship to Community After Religious Trauma

Religious trauma doesn’t just harm us individually—it disrupts our connection to others. For many Black survivors, religious spaces were the center of our communities, our families, and our social lives. Leaving those spaces often meant losing our support systems, facing isolation, or feeling like we no longer belonged.

This final session of the Reclamation Series is a space to reflect on what community means now, after religious trauma. Together, we’ll explore how spiritual abuse and church harm shaped our relationships, what it means to trust others again, and how we can begin to rebuild meaningful, safe, and empowering connections outside of religious control.

Reclaiming community is about finding belonging on our own terms—not through fear, obligation, or performance, but through authenticity, care, and mutual respect.

Join us as we close the series by honoring our journey and reflecting on how we can reconnect with community, with self, and with others—without losing ourselves again.