Post Traumatic Church: When you love Jesus, but have hurt by the church

Post Traumatic Church: Healing the Wounds Religion Left Behind

Have you ever walked away from church feeling more broken than healed? Silenced instead of seen? Condemned rather than covered in grace?

You're not alone.

Post Traumatic Church is a raw, real, and redemptive journey for anyone who has experienced spiritual trauma at the hands of religion. This book is not an attack on the Church-but an honest exploration of what happens when God's people get wounded in places meant to be safe. Through gut-wrenching truth and grace-filled perspective, author Janet Barillas invites readers to confront the pain, confusion, and shame that so often go unspoken in the body of Christ.

Each chapter pulls back the curtain on religious performance, manipulation, guilt-based control, and legalism-revealing the impact these toxic systems have on the soul. But more than just diagnosing the damage, Post Traumatic Church leads you toward deep healing through relationship with Jesus-the One who never called you to perform, but to be made whole.

Inside you'll discover:

• Real stories and reflections on church hurt, spiritual abuse, and faith deconstruction

• "Mindshift Moments" designed to help reframe your experience through the lens of truth

• Reflective prayers to guide you from bitterness to breakthrough

• A path to restore your identity and intimacy with God-apart from religious obligation

Whether you're deconstructing, reconstructing, or simply searching for clarity, this book is a safe space to grieve, question, and heal. It's for the misfits, the overachievers, the burnt-out leaders, the hidden addicts, and the silent sufferers. It's for the ones who still believe in Jesus but aren't sure where they fit in His Church anymore.

If you've ever whispered, "God, I love You, but I'm done with church"-this book was written for you.

It's time to lay down the weight of religion and pick up the freedom of grace. It's time to heal.