Emotional Heresy: A THX Series Hub
Reclaiming Emotion, Rehumanizing Faith, and Healing What Dogma Tried to Erase
About This Series
Welcome to Emotional Heresy, a series for those who were taught that empathy is weakness, emotion is sin, and logic is salvation. This space explores what happens when feeling becomes rebellion, when healing defies doctrine, and when we begin to reclaim the sacred data of our emotional lives.
Using the Transformational Human Experience (THX) frameworks—especially the 12 Utilities, PERMAH, and the Admiration Equation—we examine how Christian nationalism, fundamentalist religion, and patriarchal systems have weaponized logic, suppressed emotion, and distorted empathy.
But this isn’t just critique. It’s reclamation.
Each piece invites you to feel more, not less—to hold both compassion and boundaries, truth and tenderness. This is a space for survivors, seekers, and anyone who's ever felt like their tears were theological trespass.
Posts in the Series
Is Empathy a Sin?
Emotion Denial, Religious Trauma, and the Human Cost of Logic-Worship
Read the post →The Grief Beneath the Judgment
Feeling for the Pain They Refuse to Face
Read the post →Empathy in Exile (Three-Part Mini-Series)
Part 1 – The Emotional Heresy of Compassion
How Christian Nationalism Cast Out Empathy to Protect Power
Read the post →Part 2 – How They Trained Us Not to Feel
The Programming That Taught Us to Abandon Our Hearts
Read the post →Part 3 – Empathy as a Threat to Empire
Why Oppressive Systems Must Suppress Compassion to Survive
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Emotional Regulation Isn’t Rebellion
How We Heal Without Becoming Numb
Read the post →Sacred Data
Why Your Feelings Are Not a Flaw
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Join the Conversation
What were you taught about feelings? When did you first begin to question it? What does empathy look like now, for you?
Let me know in the comments—or reply privately if you need a safe space to process.
You're not too emotional. You're alive.
