Holy Unravelling

But all myths fall apart eventually. At some point you became disillusioned by your community, by what you were taught, and you realized that you could no longer continue to participate in the rituals and practices that were given to you.

You chose to leave. Perhaps you adopted a different kind of spirituality, or you embraced a more secular life. But there are still wounds that remain to be seen and acknowledged.

The scars of religious trauma can take many forms:

• Chronic disconnection from the body; struggling to recognize and embrace pleasure
• Shame around desire; organizing your choices around what’s forbidden rather than what you want
• Lack of language around consent, boundaries, or personal desire — only obedience or transgression
• Black and white thinking; difficulty tolerating ambiguity, or being in the Mystery
• Having suppressed curiosity for so long that you no longer know what you think or feel about anything
• A pervasive sense of being fundamentally broken, sinful, or not enough
• Difficulty trusting any spiritual teacher or guide due to betrayal by religious authority
• The grief of estrangement from family members who are still practicing
• Patterns of fawning, people-pleasing, or conflict avoidance as direct adaptations to religious environments that punished dissent
• Chronic guilt with no clear object — guilt as a baseline state rather than a response to specific actions
• Difficulty with anger, especially toward religious figures or God — it was reframed as sin, ingratitude, or spiritual weakness
• Having lost the framework that gave life structure and meaning without finding anything to replace it
• A hunger for ritual, ceremony, and communal meaning-making that secular life doesn't satisfy — and shame about that hunger

The list goes on.

This workshop is for you if you:

• Have a history of being steeped in any kind of rigid belief system in which you lost faith
• Wish to process your past in a way that seeks understanding, evolution and integration
• Feel ready to carve out a new worldview for yourself; one that emerges from choice, sovereignty and the development of your own moral compass

We are NOT here to villainize or blame any particular institutions; only to acknowledge the harm done, and to move forward into sovereignty, forgiveness and wholeness.

This full day workshop will include several group practices and rituals including:

• sacred cacao ceremony to open the heart
• grief circle and group witnessing
• journaling practices
• new frameworks for understanding psychological and spiritual development
• somatic movement practices to release holding patterns
• re-writing old beliefs and creating a space of permission

This workshop will not be presenting any new dogma or belief system to latch on to, nor are you expected to conform with either of the facilitators in any stance they take.

You are welcome exactly as you are, no matter your beliefs or current worldview. We are here to honour diversity and evolution.

This workshop is open to all genders, and people from all faith backgrounds

Date: Sat May 16th, 10am - 4pm (with a short break for lunch)

Location: Inner Arts Collective 257 Danforth Ave.

Capacity: 15 participants

Investment: $250 + tax

Judy is the founder of Goddess Temple Cacao and the creator of the Sacred Circle Facilitator Training. She guides healers and practitioners into a direct, devotional relationship with the Cacao Spirit through guided cacao dieta journeys, one of the only people in the world offering this. Trained intimately alongside a Shipibo-Conibo shaman, Judy waited through six months of daily ceremony until the spirit herself said "now go share." Her students don't leave certified. They leave initiated. Her vision is that millions of people experience this transformational journey in their lifetime, shifting the collective consciousness one open heart at a time.

“I grew up in a religion so strict that if you leave, the entire congregation is told to stop speaking to you. Your friends. Your family. The people who held you as a baby and watched you grow.

When my mom and I made the decision to leave, that's exactly what happened.

People I loved my whole life turned away. Because they were taught that shunning me was the loving thing to do.

For a long time I carried that. The grief. The confusion. The quiet shame of wondering if maybe I was the one who got it wrong.

I know what it feels like to lose your entire world and have to rebuild yourself from the inside out. I know what it feels like to love the people who hurt you and to miss a community that rejected you. I know how those old beliefs keep whispering even after you've walked away.”

Monica is a Sacred Sexuality and Embodiment coach based in Toronto.

She holds certifications as a Sexological Bodyworker and Somatic Sex Educator, and has completed numerous other trainings in psychotherapy, breathwork, yoga, Tantra, kink/BDSM, and Taoist sexuality. Monica is known for creating a warm and open environment where clients can dive into the most difficult topics surrounding their sexuality. She provides a unique container where clients can explore embodied coaching as well as receive full body touch in a safe and trauma informed environment. Monica’s mission is to help build a world where sexuality is no longer taboo, and where we can live in reverence for all of life because we are connected to the sacred within.

“I grew up in a home where we prayed the rosary daily (sometimes more than once), and crosses and holy water framed every door. The central topic of obsession was doomsday, and I was constantly warned as a child of the graphic horrors that would await me if I disobeyed the will of God. We had exorcism kits to ward off demon possession, and blessed talismans taped to every window to keep bad spirits out. I was taught that all others (who didn’t believe what we believed), no matter how good they were, would still end up in hell. I was told that questions and doubts were the products of Satan. Every message I received was so thoroughly saturated in fear and hatred, that by the time I hit adolescence I couldn’t take it anymore. I spent many years silently questioning and grappling with the worldview I had been handed, without much guidance or resources outside my community. I know what it feels like to have your entire worldview crumble without knowing where you’re going to land, and the absolute existential dread that accompanies this journey. And I also know what’s on the other side of it”

Event Venue

Inner Arts Collective, 257 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Canada

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