Julie Padgett’s Reviews > I Belong to Me: A Survivor’s Guide to Recovery and Hope after Religious Trauma > Status Update

“Cultures of silence continue the false narrative that the powerful have the only viewpoint worth sharing. Only the powerful carry dignity. Only the powerful carry autonomy. And so, the powerful continue doing what it is they’re doing, perpetuating generational, institutional, and systemic traumas on the powerless beneath their authority, who have embodied the ability to push down the past and move on.”