To the Woman Who Has Experienced Spiritual Abuse

 

They told you it was love.
But it came with conditions.
Be quiet. Be good. Be small.
Forgive, submit, smile.

 

You were told that your pain was pride,
that your boundaries were rebellion,
that your questions were sin.
They twisted scripture into shackles
and called it holy.

 

And when you broke—when you wept or screamed or walked away—
they called you the problem.
Not the system. Not the power plays.
Not the people who used God as a weapon.

 

But you are not the problem.
You never were.
You are a woman with a sacred voice that refused to be silenced.
You are a soul that said, “I deserve more than fear dressed up as faith.”

 

This retreat is not here to give you another set of rules. It’s here to give you back your freedom.

 

You don’t have to pray a certain way.
You don’t have to believe what they told you.
You don’t have to explain why it hurt.

 

You get to reclaim the sacred on your own terms.
You get to grieve. To rage. To laugh.
You get to feel held without being controlled.

 

Here, your healing is not a performance.
It’s a quiet, glorious return to yourself.
To the wild, tender, holy truth inside you.

 

You were never meant to serve systems that broke your spirit.
 

You were meant to be free.