Faith and Healing: Ann Russo on Spiritual Trauma and Mental Health

Ann Russo wasn’t raised religious. In her words, “I wasn’t really raised deeply in the faith.” But her experience in an evangelical Christian community as a young queer adult left lasting scars. “I had a very intense emotional connection with another woman in the church… she was just very much in the doctrine of that this is sinful, this is wrong, and I’m wrong and I’m sinful. So that did traumatize me.”