NEW! Religious Recovery Bootcamp

Hurt by religion?
We believe you.
You don’t have to heal alone. 

Join us for a 5-month intensive to gain the courage and strength you need to live a new life free from harmful religion.

 

  • Find others who understand
  • Free yourself from leftover ideas weighing you down
  • Understand what happened so you can move forward
  • Experience healing and personal growth
  • Discover new meaning, peace, and hope for the future

     

 

Ready to start your journey into freedom from harmful religion? 

 

 

Religious Recovery Boot Camp will help you:

  • Learn self-compassion 
  • Understand indoctrination
  • Know what to do when you get scared and wonder if you should go back
  • Connect with your inner child
  • Decide how to  handle family after leaving religion
  • Stop fearing your feelings
  • Remember how to think for yourself and express yourself
  • Find new joy and meaning in life
  • Know that you’re not alone!

     

 

 

All registered Bootcampers will receive:

  • A digital copy of Leaving the Fold and its accompanying workbook

     

  • Access to previously unpublished chapters from Leaving the Fold, other written materials, and videos
  • Weekly 2-hour group sessions with discussion, live exercises, teaching about trauma and the body, and opportunities to tell and hear stories
  • 2 optional deeply discounted coaching sessions with facilitator, Emily Hedrick
  • Membership in a private online forum for further conversations, resource sharing, and support throughout the week.

 

 

 

 


Meet your Facilitators

Emily Hedrick is an ex-pastor who spent her childhood among mainstream Mennonites embracing evangelical fundamentalism. By the time Emily deconstructed and deconverted, she had received certification from JRNI as a life coach, discovered Marlene Winell’s work, and became a Certified Trauma Support Specialist. She’s currently pursuing certification with the International Coaching Federation and as a Forward Facing Practitioner. Emily is excited to be working as Program Director for Marlene at Journey Free, and she facilitates sessions of the online support group. You can read some of her writing, including excerpts from her book True Confessions of a God Killer, and find out more about her coaching on her website.

 

Marlene Winell* is the author of Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion and director of Journey Free.  Born and raised overseas by missionary parents, Marlene was immersed in fundamentalist Christianity from childhood. She moved away from that religion during college and found the transition process so difficult and intriguing that she began to research it professionally. In 2011, she named Religious Trauma Syndrome. Dr. Winell’s academic teaching began at Penn State and continued at Colorado State University, where she taught courses in adult development. At Boulder Graduate School and University of California, Santa Cruz, she taught communication skills for personal relationships and skills for living in a diverse society. At present, Marlene is based in Western Massachusetts. She does individual consultation, facilitates groups, teaches, and trains professionals in the field of religious trauma.

*Marlene will drop in sessions when appropriate. Most sessions will be run by Emily Hedrick.