Sanctuary of Healing

A powerful and compassionate guide for clergy and lay religious leaders seeking to help their parishioners navigate trauma and cultivate their physical and spiritual well-being. With compassion and insight, pastor Julia Matallana Freedman empowers religious leaders to address the prevalence of trauma in their congregations with empathy and care. Bringing startling data about the prevalence of sexual, racial, and generational trauma in the U.S. to light, she asserts that holding space for parishioners' traumatic life experiencestruly delving into and exploring the pain of their past in one-on-one sessionscan help transform places of worship into what she calls "sanctuaries of healing." Through practical tools and a call to hold space, this guide offers actionable steps to create safe, intentional environments where healing and wholenessboth spiritual and physicalcan flourish.