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Will's essay was published in Another Jane Pratt Thing. "A visceral wave of NO! stopped me like a force field as I crossed the threshold into the sanctuary. A burning sensation crept forward from the nape of my neck to engulf my face like a phantom hand tugging me down, suffocating me." ...Twenty years have passed since I left Mormonism. Until that panic attack, I insisted I was fine. Sure, I had a panic attack in a religious building. Didn’t even have to be a Mormon one. After that flashback, I realized I intellectually processed the traumas of my Mormon upbringing, but I have only begun to emotionally process the deep scars I ignored."