the mercy of the fallen

Virginia, she/her, bi/pan, infj. Sharing resources, art, feelings and community support among those with childhood emotional, psychological and religious trauma.

[susan-after-narnia]

Resources for Childhood Emotional/Psychological Abuse Recovery

"the invisible scar": website offering definitions, symptoms, recovery guidance, resources and support for adult survivors

reddit: r/raisedbynarcissists provides great informational resources and is mainly driven by survivor stories, venting, questions to and support from fellow survivors.

survivor story and resources for help: "To My Abusive Father, From a Daughter Learning to Live" note: also refers to domestic violence/physical abuse, proceed with care)

article: psychology today: "5 steps to recover from emotional abuse"

article: "what is emotional abuse?" from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK.

Musical catharsis: I made a playlist about having an emotionally abusive/manipulative/gaslighting father and growing up Catholic.

Resources for Religious Trauma Recovery

article: "when religion becomes traumatic" from cptsd.org

article: "Religious Trauma: 9+ Signs of Spiritual Abuse & How to Heal"

Reddit: r/ReligiousTrauma, r/excatholic - really great insights and community support here

Resources for Recovering Catholics website

I recommend searching Google Scholar and any other academic / library databases you have access to, on topics such as Religious Trauma Syndrome and its specific manifestations in your present or former faith. For example, keywords such as "sexual guilt catholic women" helped me to find many extremely useful/validating research studies and articles.

Religious Trauma Support Organizations note: some of these sites offer support groups with costs; however, all have helpful resources available for free. by and large, these are non-profits founded and run by survivors of religious trauma

journeyfree: research-driven background and guidance for recovery, newsletter, blog, podcast

recovery from religion: peer and professional support, blog, podcast

tears of eden: blog, survivor stories, support groups

[catcrumb]

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[akashicrecord]

hey sexy what time do you plan on being done grieving

[mousidy]

oh, honestly I was planning on reopening the same wounds again and again and again and again and again and again and again

[bakwaaas]

I do feel like this whole self improvement culture thing can go too far where people are never happy with who they are and where they are because they’re constantly trying to be better or do better and they’re always waiting for some sort of glow up or achievement or therapy realisation that will make them feel complete but that isn’t real and life is actually in the every day

[cherubinas]

2025 film diary → SAINT MAUD (2019) dir. Rose Glass

Take some responsibility for your actions. You're here because you are alone. If you were a true believer, He would be enough. But it's clear now that you are as weak as your faith!

[moonlight]

Never waste your pain.

SAINT MAUD (2019) DIR. ROSE GLASS

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "Just Get Over It," originally published in 2018

[tundrakatiebean]

I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

is there actually anything more irritating than depression apathy… like why am i sitting here arguing with myself “i kinda wanna play a video game but i kinda don’t because, what, i’m just gonna boot up a game and play it and have fun and close it when i’m done? get real”

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "Your Heart is the Sea," originally published in 2018

[ughmerlin]

incorrect merlin quotes #11

[diabeticlesbian]

Sweet Dreams - Rora Blue

2020.

“Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.”

[thememedaddy]

[heavenangelblog]

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "The Anguish," originally published in 2018

[annori]

E.M. Forster from Maurice (1971)

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953