Bringing Religious Silencing to an End
- Conscious Coore
- Aug 29, 2025
- 2 min read
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Reason #2: Many Christians never recovered from religious silencing
Here’s the thing: Religion can breed fear and foster silence.
And not just for clients.
What if you, the clinician or leader, carry the same spiritual wound, the fear of saying the wrong thing?
Maybe you’ve been told your work is too clinical or not biblical enough.Maybe you've been made to feel like addressing mental health is a lack of faith.Maybe you've been belittled or dismissed by well-meaning believers who never studied the weight of trauma but still speak with full confidence about healing.
You’re surrounded by people who seem so spiritually wise (seeming fluent in Scripture, in prayer, in discernment), and maybe you’ve questioned yourself.
What if I don’t know enough? What if I’m missing something?How do I bring faith into my work in a way that feels real, not forced?
In spaces that mistake repression for maturity, even your desire to support people differently can feel like a threat. So you hold back. You keep quiet. You doubt whether your kind of care even belongs in the Church.
But what if you didn’t have to?
Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® gives language to what you’ve lived. It helps faith-driven clinicians reclaim their voice and learn how to hold space for others who lost theirs. It shows you how to integrate faith into your work without compromising your ethics or your training—and without performing someone else’s version of spirituality.
It affirms what you’ve always known deep down:
Mental health work isn’t less spiritual.
It’s the soil where real transformation can take root.
If you’re tired of shrinking your voice to survive in spiritual spaces...If you’re ready to support healing without having to apologize for how you do it...
Because trauma-informed care isn’t just good therapy.
It’s what a good ministry should be.
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Conscious Coore is the founder of Flamingo Trauma Recovery, the creator of the Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention® framework, and author of Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Spiritual Intervention. With a background in psychology, education, and inner healing ministry, she equips faith-aligned professionals to integrate clinical care and biblical wisdom for lasting transformation. Through her work with Jesus in the Marketplace, she highlights where Safe and Sound work is happening, even in spaces that often overlook the need for it.
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