Overview
What happens when the place meant to nurture your Soul becomes the source of your deepest wound? The Forgotten Self is a groundbreaking study exploring how spiritual abuse, religious trauma, emotional suppression, and fear-based doctrine rupture a person's identity and sever their most sacred connection to God, to meaning, and to the Self. Drawing from neuroscience, trauma theory, and lived stories of survivors, clinical psychologist Dr. Cristy S. Carr reveals how spiritual abuse fractures identity, rewires the nervous system, and disrupts one's ability to trust, love, and feel safe within their own inner world. Through compassionate insight and evidence-based research, she helps readers understand the hidden impact of religious trauma, Divine Attachment wounds, spiritual performance and years of fear-driven faith. With tenderness and clarity, Dr. Carr guides readers through the grief of spiritual exile, the confusion of deconstruction, and the reconstruction of a faith rooted not in fear-but in Love, agency, and inner truth. Whether you are healing from evangelical trauma, questioning long-held beliefs, or longing to reconnect with God after harm, The Forgotten Self offers a path back to wholeness. You are not broken. You are not lost. You are a Beautiful Soul, Deeply Loved. And your Soul remembers the way home.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Cristy S Carr
Publisher: Autoteliclife
Imprint: Autoteliclife
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.281kg
ISBN: 9798998819100
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 December 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""The Forgotten Self combines intellectual rigor with heartfelt narrative, offering readers a window into both the process and the results of the research study. I am confident that Dr. Carr's work through this book will continue to make positive changes to people affected by the Evangelical Christian Church and experience spiritual abuse."" -Tara Rava Zolnikov, PhD, MS, MS, MSProfessor, Editor at Dialogues in Health Publications and Research ""The Forgotten Self is a book for anyone struggling to find themselves again, or for the first time, while recovering from spiritual abuse. As a survivor of high control religion, I can attest that fellow religious refugees will find Dr. Carr's work helpful and healing."" -Anonymous, Doctoral Phenomenological Study Participant
Author Information
Dr. Cristy S. Carr is a clinical psychologist specializing in recovery from spiritual abuse, particularly within American evangelicalism. Her trauma-informed approach empowers clients to heal, rediscover self-worth, and rebuild authentic spirituality. A devoted researcher of truth, she loves quantum physics, neuroscience, and ""bubble therapy""--exploring the vast beauty of the ocean's coral reefs and its wildlife as a fervent scuba diver.
