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September 2025

September 14, 2025

How Beliefs Emerge from Trauma

How Beliefs Emerge from Trauma We tend to think of our beliefs as coming from...

July 2025

July 27, 2025

We Don’t Need a God, We Need People

We Don't Need a God, We Need People Most stories about God begin much like...

June 2025

June 28, 2025

Learn From Survivor Stories

June 22, 2025

Finding Regulating and Somatic Healing

June 21, 2025

Learn to be Who You Are (Authenticity)

May 2025

May 13, 2025

Campfires in the Desert – A Soft Book Release

Are you serious about deconstruction and asking bigger questions? If that’s the case, this book...

April 2025

April 26, 2025

Why Campfires are Essential in Deconstruction

After spending several years in the deconstruction world, I benefited from the wisdom of...

March 2025

March 20, 2025

Organizations Come First-Tim Whitaker & The New Evangelicals

Two years ago, I felt like I had stumbled into a nightmare within The New...

August 2024

August 23, 2024

How Religion Lowers our Expectations

How religion lowers our expectations Before anybody objects, just let me say this about...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

New Book – Evolving from Religious Trauma

Evolving from Religious Trauma Hello! We are Karl and Laura Forehand! For the last 8-10...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

Healing from Trauma 2 – Going Inside & Trusting Ourselves

Healing From Trauma – Going Inside & Trusting Ourselves (An excerpt from our book, Leaning...

March 08, 2024

316 – Rachael Peach – IFB Abuse Survivor

Rachael Peach - IFB Abuse Survivor Rachel is an abuse survivor who suffered abuse in...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

Returning Home to Heal Trauma

Returning Home to Heal Trauma What we are learning about trauma is not necessarily that...

December 2023

December 11, 2023

Tending the Wounds of Religious Trauma with Rebekah Drumsta

Tending the Wounds of Religious Trauma I was lucky to create a conference called Leaning...

December 04, 2023

The 5-Why and Church Harm

The 5-Why and Church Harm In the 1930s, the Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda (the inventor...

August 2023

August 19, 2023

How Religion Controls Us

Have you ever wondered how we got so entangled with religion? Just think about...

June 2023

June 16, 2023

Doing the Hard Work (Guest Post)

(Guest post by my wife, Laura Forehand) Leaving organized religion has opened up so many...

May 2023

May 25, 2023

Healing is Feeling

Yesterday, I heard someone talking on social media. They were wondering whether getting angry would...

May 19, 2023

The Problem with Pastors

I was a pastor for 20 years, mostly in smaller towns. I would blend into...

April 2023

April 18, 2023

The Diner

I would like to announce the release of my second novel, The Diner. I started with the...

February 2023

February 02, 2023

I’m Still Mad at Organized Religion

I'm not an expert at mental health issues, but I do know that anger is...

December 2022

December 08, 2022

Anyone Else Ever Feel Down?

Any one else ever feel DOWN? Me too! Anyone else ever tell yourself the wrong...

December 02, 2022

The Wounded Pastor

Even though I am hard on pastors, I still see them as casualties of organized...

November 2022

November 18, 2022

The Church is Out of Space

Recently I listened to a discussion about a book I'm involved with called Parenting Deconstructed....

November 09, 2022

Listening to Each Other

Last night, Laura and I recorded a podcast where we were reviewing one of my...

November 02, 2022

Why I Had to Go Further

‍ While It's true that many millions of people are deconstructing their faith, some of...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

The Things That Hurt

In 20 years of ministry, I have never had anyone refuse to take communion from...

May 2022

May 11, 2022

The Water We Swim In

Often when I talk about issues I see within the church or organize religion, I...

May 10, 2022

How Pastors Foster Abuse

Only in the past 100 years have we begun to truly understand how humans work....

April 2022

April 07, 2022

Words Matter in Recovery

Over the past few years, words have become very important to me. Not just words,...