About
Anna Clark Miller is an author, trainer, and licensed professional counselor who is dedicated to helping survivors heal from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and high-control groups. Her work is rooted in her own lived experience as a survivor. After being born and raised in a high-control religious group, Anna spent years working in fundamentalist organizations before recognizing the signs of religious trauma in her own life. Her personal journey of healing from institutional harm is the wellspring for work.
Anna's writing, training, and counseling center survivors' experiences connected to beliefs, practices, or systems that were disempowering and harmful. Her publications are firmly rooted in the growing body of research on religious harm and high-control groups. Anna's contributions are guided by core values of empathy, curiosity, and autonomy, and she takes a religiously neutral approach, focusing on each individual's right to think for themselves and pursue healing on their own terms.
For more information about Anna Clark Miller's work, visit www.EmpathyParadigm.com.
Featured Work
For God's Sake: Recovering from Religious Trauma
“I feel guilty all the time, even when I'm not doing anything wrong..."
Are you navigating fear, shame, and isolation in the aftermath of harmful experiences in religion? Are you so used to suppressing your own needs and emotions, that you don't know how to express them anymore?
For God's Sake: Recovering from Religious Trauma offers language to help you understand what you've experienced, process your hurt and anger, and start healing on your own terms. You'll learn how to turn your self-judgement into curiosity, and your shame into self-compassion. Each chapter includes multiple inventories, checklists, and personal reflection prompts to help you connect more deeply with yourself and gain insight into how religious trauma has impacted you.
Grounded in research and counseling experience, Miller takes a religiously neutral approach to healing. She knows from experience that many religious trauma survivors are understandably anxious about perceived hidden agendas, particularly those tied to religion and spirituality. So whether you're looking to leave religion completely or seek a new, healthier relationship with your faith, For God's Sake can help you recover and explore who you are beyond religious trauma.
Other Works
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The Religious Trauma Survival Guide
2023
