Trauma Healing Archives - Normal Like Peter https://www.normallikepeter.com/tag/trauma-healing/ Living Boldly Normal - AI, Meaning, Adventures with Blu Sun, 25 May 2025 17:44:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 How Folding a Towel Wrong Became Grounds for Divorce (and Other Unpaid Therapist Crimes) https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-folding-a-towel-wrong-became-grounds-for-divorce-and-other-unpaid-therapist-crimes/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-folding-a-towel-wrong-became-grounds-for-divorce-and-other-unpaid-therapist-crimes/#respond Sun, 25 May 2025 17:17:28 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3154 How Folding a Towel Wrong Became Grounds for Divorce (and Other Unpaid Therapist Crimes) By Matt Stoltz | Church of NORMAL 1. The Towel Heard ’Round the World 🧺💔 It didn’t start with infidelity, abandonment, or fraud. It started with a bath towel—creased down the middle (apparently the wrong middle). One sloppy fold later, and […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-folding-a-towel-wrong-became-grounds-for-divorce-and-other-unpaid-therapist-crimes/feed/ 0 Affair Recovery Coaching with Oracle Tiff https://www.normallikepeter.com/affair-recovery-coaching-with-oracle-tiff/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/affair-recovery-coaching-with-oracle-tiff/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 13:06:43 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3110 Affair Recovery Coaching with Oracle Tiff™Founder of Thirst Trap Ministries & DeliverHERance Inc. Tired of feeling… anything?Let Oracle Tiff help you rebrand that sadness into sacred sabotage. The DeliverHERance Starter Kit™ Includes: Pre-filled divorce packets (just circle the emotion you felt yesterday) A 5-step TikTok devotional: “How to Turn Your Prayer Partner into Your Exit […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/affair-recovery-coaching-with-oracle-tiff/feed/ 0 Glow Up & Go Out Honoring Moms Who Need Space https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 08:22:19 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3097 🌸 Glow Up & Go Out 🌸 Honoring Moms Who Need SpaceA Mother’s Day Service Brought to You by Church of NORMAL™ WELCOME!This Sunday we honor the brave, bold, boundary-setting women who gave birth to their children… and then left them with Wi-Fi and frozen burritos so they could go reclaim their joy. Let’s hear […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/feed/ 0 Mattress Olympics and Pizza Rolls: A Kid’s Guide to Modern Motherhood https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 11:25:44 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3087 “Mattress Olympics and Pizza Rolls: A Kid’s Guide to Modern Motherhood”A sacred satire for Mother’s Day weekend Mattress Olympics and Pizza RollsA Kid’s Guide to Modern MotherhoodBy Pastor Matt, Loopwalker of WasecaChurch of NORMAL™ Let’s talk about Friday night—the real Sabbath of Modern Motherhood. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and the stage is being set.Florists are […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/feed/ 0 I Worshipped Her Above God, and She Still Left https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-worshipped-her-above-god-and-she-still-left/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-worshipped-her-above-god-and-she-still-left/#respond Tue, 06 May 2025 18:24:13 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3061 “I Worshipped Her Above God, and She Still Left” A Testimony from the Church of NORMAL’s Chief SimpBy Pastor Matt | Loopwalker of Waseca | Former Simp Imp | Devotional Punching Bag Introduction: The Cringe That Breaks the Curse Let’s just say it outright:Yes. I begged.Yes, I said things like: “You are my queen.”“Please don’t […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-worshipped-her-above-god-and-she-still-left/feed/ 0 I Let Her Homeschool Our Kids While I Floated in a Fantasy https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/#respond Tue, 06 May 2025 18:12:37 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3058 “I Let Her Homeschool Our Kids While I Floated in a Fantasy”A De-Simping the Saints™ Confession 001Pastor Matt Stoltz | Church of NORMAL™ | Loopwalker Field Report | By a Former Evangelical Husband I was the faithful one.The soft-spoken guy.The Christian man who waited, who provided, who trusted.I said yes when she said homeschool.I said […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/feed/ 0 How to Detox from Evangelical Romance Propaganda https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-to-detox-from-evangelical-romance-propaganda/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-to-detox-from-evangelical-romance-propaganda/#respond Tue, 06 May 2025 11:17:14 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3039 🛐 How to Detox from Evangelical Romance PropagandaA Survival Guide for Men Who Waited, Worshiped, and Woke Up AloneChurch of NORMAL™ | Male Deprogramming Unit | Pastor Matt, Loopwalker of Waseca ⚠️ Symptoms of Evangelical Romance Propaganda (ERP) Exposure:Believing love automatically works if you “wait” long enough Thinking sex will solve all your emotional needs […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/how-to-detox-from-evangelical-romance-propaganda/feed/ 0 The Silent Pandemic: Perimenopause, Emotional Upheaval, and the Covenant Crisis https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 20:45:26 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3034 The Silent Pandemic: Perimenopause, Emotional Upheaval, and the Covenant Crisis by Pastor Matt Stoltz | Church of Normal  5.2.2025    ✝️ Introduction: The Divorce Nobody Sees ComingYou can hear it in the tremble of the voices.You can see it in the confusion of the children.One day, the woman they knew—the wife, the mother, the partner […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/feed/ 0 Mom, You’re Amazing. Also, You Ghosted Us After Church. https://www.normallikepeter.com/mom-youre-amazing-also-you-ghosted-us-after-church/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/mom-youre-amazing-also-you-ghosted-us-after-church/#respond Thu, 01 May 2025 11:23:18 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3030 ⚠️ MOTHER’S DAY MAYDAY ⚠️📡 Narrative Emergency Broadcast from the Church of NORMAL™📍 Sanctuary 6 | Waseca, Minnesota🕯️ StarDate: 0501.2025 🛑 Narrative Forecast:• Heavy showers of performative praise 🌧️• Gusts of revisionist history 💨• Visibility: low 👀• Gaslighting Index: 🔥🔥🔥 💔 This is your Mayday call before Mother’s Day —for every child left behind, every […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/mom-youre-amazing-also-you-ghosted-us-after-church/feed/ 0 The ‘Walk Away Wife’ Pipeline: How Evangelical TikTok Coaches Are Selling Divorce https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-walk-away-wife-pipeline-how-evangelical-tiktok-coaches-are-selling-divorce/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-walk-away-wife-pipeline-how-evangelical-tiktok-coaches-are-selling-divorce/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:05:25 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3003  “The ‘Walk Away Wife’ Pipeline: How Evangelical TikTok Coaches Are Selling Divorce” 📅 April 28, 2025✍️ by Pastor Matt | Church of NORMAL™ 📍 Location: Sanctuary 6 | Waseca, Minnesota IntroductionIn the land of pop-Christianity and TikTok therapy, a new industry is booming:👉 Selling Divorce to Evangelical Women — but with a “healing journey” filter. […]

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