The Post Church Files
Sam SellersThe Post Church Files is where we unpack the mess and meaning that comes after high-control religion. For the ones healing from cults, embracing queerness, unlearning purity culture, and the ache of untangling faith. This space is yours.
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What Worship Took With It
For two years, I couldn’t listen to music.
Not worship music specifically. Music. The radio in the car went off. The playlist I’d had running in the background of every ordinary day went quiet. At dinner, in the evenings, getting ready in...
I Was Doing Research
The thing about Charmed was that I was technically allowed to watch it at home, because my Mum didn’t see anything wrong with it - she wasn’t a part of the church.
Not forbidden exactly. Not a banned item, not a show that appeared on any e...
They Called It Love. It Was Conversion.
I’ve been in the room when someone understood this.
Not when they came out, that’s a different room, often brighter, often loud with relief even when it’s also terrifying. This is the quieter one. The one that comes later. Sometimes months...
No One Told Us How to Do This
A note on lens: this piece is written from the perspective of queer women navigating sexuality after purity culture. It’s not the whole story; queer men, trans and non-binary people carry their own versions of this, and those deserve their...
The Queerphobia You Brought With You
It was a small thing. The kind of thing you’d explain away if you catalogued it too quickly.
I was in a cafe, sitting with someone I was drawn to, one of the first times connecting with someone as both queer and poly, and we were just talk...
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Queer Dog Mum Navigating Life Post-Church | Therapist | Specialising in Religious Trauma, Cult Recovery & LGBTQIA+ Community | Co-Founder of The Religious Trauma Collective
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