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  • You Are Your Own

  • A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
  • Written by: Jamie Lee Finch
  • Narrated by: Jamie Lee Finch
  • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Rooted in her experiences growing up in an evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s You Are Your Own offers an overview of evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. 

Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt those leaving the evangelical faith and offers an approach to help them recover healthy self-worth and resilience.

A socio-historical autobiographical analysis of evangelical Christianity's religious trauma, You Are Your Own emerges from Finch's reconnaissance on her own life - her journals, stories, trauma - and offers advocacy for everyone harmed by fundamentalist faith.

Jamie Lee Finch is a sexuality and embodiment coach, intuitive healer, self-conversation facilitator, sex witch, and poet. You can learn about Jamie’s work at JamieLeeFinch.com
©2019 Jamie Lee Finch (P)2019 Jamie Lee Finch
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Just the beginning...

Captivated the captive. Hope for an end to mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional prison.

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I wish I’d read this 10 years ago!

With a few minor distinctions, Jamie’s story is my story! This book will give you the permission you need to seek your own, deep and meaningful path to healing. I wish I could give this book more stars!

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Important truths

It is so hard and so exhausting to try and fight to make people understand the pain and trauma caused by the actual doctrines of Christianity. They want to believe it was a mistake or twisted application that harmed us. It wasn’t. It was so validating to hear that affirmed

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