Heretic

Book CW: RA, SA, DA.

Wow, what a journey and I'm still unpacking what I just read. Processing of religious trauma is unique to everyone, but I personally felt a lot of those parallels even though I was not raised Evangelical.

Kadlec draws from LGBTQ+ literary luminaries and other psychology and self-help professionals to thoroughly explain her deconstruction. She also doesn't shy away from acknowledging when she could've handled situations better, and she constantly checks back in with herself to learn what she could do differently going forward.

I feel like Kadlec did an incredible job of sorting through the lies we tell ourselves for the sake of other people, and the damage resulting from living in a predetermined box our parents shove us into instead of recognizing and realizing our own agency.

Great read.