There are women who return to faith not because they are naïve, but because they are wise.
Because they know what it means to be lost and then to be found by something loving, unseen, and unrelenting.
When she walks back into that sanctuary — whether it’s a quiet church pew, a prayer whispered over dishes, or a song she hums at dawn — she’s not returning to oppression. She’s returning to oxygen.
🌾 For Some Women, Faith Is Safety
Not the kind that asks her to shrink or stay silent,
but the kind that reminds her who she is when the world tries to erase her.
Her faith may be stitched from old hymns, grandmother prayers, and nights she nearly didn’t make it.
That kind of faith isn’t something you pull apart.
It’s something you honor.
🕊️ Beware the New Kind of Manipulation
Sometimes women are told:
“You don’t need faith anymore. That’s old thinking.”
But that’s just another way of saying,
“Stop trusting what makes you whole.”
There’s a subtle cruelty in convincing a woman to let go of the one thing that steadies her spirit.
If faith gives her breath, don’t mock her lungs.
🔥 Reclaiming, Not Rejecting
Faith has harmed some of us, yes.
But many of us are not running from faith — we are reclaiming it.
We are gathering the sacred pieces and reweaving them into something that belongs to us now.
Something woman-built.
Something safe.
Something that won’t hand us over to harm in the name of holiness.
🌿 Healing Takes Many Roads
Some women heal through scripture.
Some through movement.
Some through ancestral songs that rise like incense.
Every path back to wholeness deserves reverence, not ridicule.
💛 Sisterhood Sounds Like This:
“If faith is where you breathe again, stay there.
I won’t try to move you. I’ll pray beside you.”