Losing Your Faith: Coping with the Trauma of Deconversion

For those not raised within a religious framework, or who have never had experiences of religion as an adult, they may wonder why it is so difficult — and traumatic — for a formerly-religious person to lose his or her faith. It shouldn’t be any more difficult to drop one’s religious beliefs, the non-religious person might conclude, than it is when we become adults and no longer believe in…