Episode 14: Meet the Board: Healing and Hope after Spiritual Abuse with Kat Wilkins
Sep 17, 2024
In this short series, you’ll get to meet each of our board members.
Listen to their stories and backgrounds, and why they chose to serve on the board and support the work at Broken to Beloved.
This week, I talk with therapist Kat Wilkins.
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I don’t want to underestimate or understate how important that is in this work, to know that there are safe people that you can trust.
People can take as much time as they need and take what’s helpful and drop what’s not, and leave the rest for later. I get excited about the different ways, and some of it is kind of just exploring and brainstorming and experimenting, see what kind of fits, like offering different things, and kind of seeing what sticks and seeing what impacts people. And sometimes the thing that sticks with most people might be surprising to us as we’re offering different things.
The process itself of trauma is overwhelming, but even healing is overwhelming. Knowing where to go and where to start and what to listen to, and who to trust, I just feel so caring and compassionate and tender toward the people who are like, "I don’t even know if I can listen to, if I can even be in a group of people, because I’m not sure if I feel even okay trying that yet."
I believe that the pain of whatever happened to you is telling the truth about the awfulness of what it was. The pain is real. Agony is worth believing. Believing your body when it tells you something hurts, you’re not crazy.
Episode Resources and Links
- Broken to Beloved Book Club
- The Understory by Lore Wilbert on Bookshop | on Amazon
- Episode 13 with Laura Barringer
- When Narcissism Comes to Church by Chuck DeGroat on Bookshop | on Amazon
- Redeeming Power by Diane Langberg on Bookshop | on Amazon
- This Too Shall Last by KJ Ramsey on Bookshop | on Amazon
- Conference info and registration
- Gathering info and registration
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Guest Spotlight
For nearly a decade, Kat has helped adults pursue wholeness and healing in a clinical setting and is convinced of the goodness and wisdom of our bodies in how they work to protect us. Specializing in religious trauma, her formal training includes EMDR, Polyvagal Theory, Ego State therapy, and Bowen Family Systems, and is constantly reading and learning new approaches and skills.
She holds a Masters degree in clinical counseling, and I am professionally licensed by the state boards in Missouri and Florida.
Website | Instagram
Kat's Story as told in:
- Bully Pulpit by Michael Kruger on Bookshop | on Amazon
- Untangled Faith podcast with Amy Fritz
Narcissistic Systems blog series part 1
Narcissistic Systems blog series part 2
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