Overcoming Religious Abuse Community

What This Community Offers

This is a free, protected group where members have access to meaningful resources, thoughtful discussion, and steady encouragement.

Inside the group, you’ll find:

• Compassionate support from others who understand religious abuse

• Education about trauma, power dynamics, and recovery

• Tools for rebuilding trust, boundaries, and self-worth

• Honest conversation — without pressure, judgment, or toxic positivity

• Gentle guidance grounded in both lived experience and professional insight

You are encouraged to participate at your own pace. Listening quietly is just as welcome as sharing.

A Trauma-Informed, Survivor-Centered Space

For everyone’s safety, the group follows clear community guidelines designed to create a respectful, healing environment.

• This group is not therapy, but it is trauma-informed

• You may leave the group at any time if it no longer feels supportive

• Your boundaries are always respected

• You are never required to share more than you’re comfortable with

Your well-being comes first — always.

Guided by Connie A. Baker, MA, LPC

Connie A. Baker, MA, LPC is a licensed professional counselor, trauma recovery specialist, and published author. As a survivor of religious abuse herself, Connie brings both professional expertise and lived understanding to this community.

She offers guidance, reflection, and insight drawn from:

• Decades of experience as a therapist

• Her own personal recovery journey

• Ongoing work supporting survivors of spiritual and religious abuse

Connie’s approach is compassionate, grounded, and deeply validating — with honesty, wisdom, and the occasional much-needed sense of humor.