{"product_id":"i-belong-to-me-a-survivors-guide-to-recovery-and-hope-after-religious-trauma","title":"I Belong to Me: A Survivor's Guide to Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTIA LEVINGS is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eA Well-Trained Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes about the realities of religious trauma, decoding fundamentalist influences in today's culture. Her work and quotes have appeared in \n\u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, the \n\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, paint, and daydream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no more powerful kind of knowing than the one that lives in your bones. Levings offers us this knowing- translating her story into the wise, fierce, and clear guide needed for the pathway of recovery. With Levings by your side, you will be able to feel brave enough to turn stones over, learn what was kept from you, and return home to yourself. This book is an invitation out of who you had to be, into the fullness of who you are.\" --Hillary L. McBride, PhD, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Your Body\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHoly Hurt \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tia has the exceptional gift of meeting you with the kind of care I recognize as sacred. Through her gentle guidance and stories, she finds the unique, often elusive space for the complexity of trauma and deconstruction. This book will be a reference guide for years to come for those seeking the healing that can only come from doing the work. No one explains that work better than Tia Levings.\" --Karla Kamstra, author of\u003ci\u003e Deconstructing \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eloquent. [\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e] focuses on how to recover hope after a religious trauma--in fact, any trauma--examining the journey in minute detail with the goal of nurturing a healthy mind and body.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tia Levings's \n\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e thoughtfully and skillfully expresses the developing path forward for those of us deconstructing faith, not necessarily to replace it, but to rediscover what our trumped-up religion itself replaced and repressed: our humanity.\" --David R. Morris, author of \n\u003ci\u003eLost Faith and Wandering Souls\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Today, when the devastating effects of religious trauma are widespread and well known, Tia Leving's book \n\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential lifeline. Tia not only identifies the effects of high control religion, but offers a gentle, nourishing pathway for recovering agency and strength to chart a new path. Tia's helpful practices are only matched by her superb way with words! A pleasure to read.\" --Julie Bogart, author of \n\u003ci\u003eRaising Critical Thinkers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tia Levings has an unflinching way of turning wounds into maps and making hard truths bearable. \n\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e reaches through the darkness like a knowing hand and refuses to let go until you find your way back to yourself.\" --Bethny Ricks, author of \n\u003ci\u003eFace Forward \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compassionate and empowering, \n\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e offers a road map to help the betrayed children of American evangelicalism navigate the uncharted landscape of religious trauma. Her pages on estrangement in Christian families are the best I've read on the topic, and the way Tia carefully respects reader agency really makes this book stand out.\" --Marissa Franks Burt, author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Few people write about religious trauma with the honesty, clarity, and compassion that Tia Levings brings to \n\u003ci\u003eI Belong to Me\u003c\/i\u003e. This book is both a witness and a guide, naming the harm so many have endured while offering a path toward healing, wholeness, and self-reclamation. For anyone trying to find themselves after toxic faith, this book will feel like the lifeline they have been longing for.\" --Brandan Robertson, Author, \n\u003ci\u003eQueer \u0026amp; Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place At The Table\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does it mean to heal from trauma caused by the people, beliefs, and practices of your faith? And to rebuild a sense of self, when high-control religion said you shouldn't have one?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndoctrinated from early childhood to obey, conform, and want what others wanted for her, Tia Levings learned love and acceptance meant being someone other than herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter years of abuse in a violent marriage and high-control religion, Tia Levings escaped with her children (a story told in her memoir, \n\u003ci\u003e A Well-Trained Wife\u003c\/i\u003e) and thought the hardest was behind her. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut leaving was just the beginning. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an audacious persistence to reclaim her life, Tia set off on a 15-year quest to psychological peace. The result is an emotionally regulated, actualized, self-aware woman who is able to tell her harrowing story without retraumatizing herself --a woman who can reach back to help others claim what's theirs. If trauma took your past, it shouldn't get your present and future too. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a series of personal stories, therapeutic stages, and resources, Tia Levings guides readers through the journey that helped her leave abuse, rediscover selfhood, and heal her mind, soul, and body after religious trauma --so that you can too. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781250374271, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/08\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9781250374271, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eLevings, Tia\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTIA LEVINGS is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eA Well-Trained Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. 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