The Cost of Belonging... Religious Trauma Explored

About this episode

The episode explores religious trauma and the psychological forces that keep individuals attached to harmful belief systems, featuring insights from Dr. Bahareh Sahebi.

In this episode, we continue our discussion on religious trauma and the psychological forces that keep people attached to harmful belief systems. We explore belonging, indoctrination, perfectionism, hyper vigilance, emotional suppression, internal fragmentation, and the struggle to develop an authentic moral compass outside rigid doctrine. We also discuss identity, fear, circumcision as male genital mutilation and how trauma becomes internalized within both individuals and communities. We are happy to once again have on Dr. Bahareh Sahebi to discuss this and her own personal experiences growing up in Iran, you can ding more of her work on Instagram @ dr._.bahar and on substack @ drsahebi .

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel, Eric

Guest: Dr. Bahareh Sahebi

Topics covered

• religious trauma
• psychological forces
• belonging
• indoctrination
• identity
• emotional suppression
• moral compass

Keywords

• religious trauma
• indoctrination
• identity
• emotional suppression
• moral compass
• perfectionism
• hyper vigilance

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iran

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