The Radiant Sessions

Starting off 2026 with my first speaking engagement. I’ll be speaking at SexEd Pop Up on Feb 7th in Baltimore on “Reclaiming the Erotic: How Pleasure Can Help Heal Religious Trauma”

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I was taught my body was dangerous.
That pleasure was sin.
That desire made me unworthy.

The truth?
🌹 Sensuality is presence.
🌹 Sexuality is power.
Both are sacred. Both are mine to reclaim. What are you reclaiming? Let me know in the comments.

✨ This has been my healing and I can guide you through yours.
👉 Comment “RADIANT” if you’re ready to begin.

You can deconstruct your beliefs, walk away from the church, call out purity culture, and still be carrying internalized shame. Deconstruction pulls down the walls, but it doesn’t heal the shame that built them.

Here are 10 signs you still struggle with internalized shame.

Church kids I want to hear from you, which one(s) stood out to you the most?

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And let’s be real…a lot of what we were told were “soul ties” were actually trauma bonds dressed up in church clothes. Healing this isn’t just about going to therapy (though do that too). It’s about deconstructing the lies you were taught about love, worthiness, and what it means to be desired. It’s about learning your attachment style, building emotional intelligence, and giving yourself the tools to recognize real intimacy, the slow, steady kind, not the quick-burning intensity that leaves you scorched.

You deserve relationships that don’t just feel like a high. You deserve connections rooted in truth, mutual respect, and emotional safety. Not just another Jesus-flavored situationship that leaves you questioning your value.

🫶🏽 LuzCelenia Arce

This concept is second nature to me now, but I get why it’s hard for others; indoctrination had me twisted too. But here’s the bottom line: if it’s harmful, it’s not loving. And if it’s not loving, it’s not God.

Pic of me for the algorithm ☺️

I’m going to hold your hand with a napkin when I say this, but the rapture isn’t actually in the Bible. It was made up in the 1800s by John Darby, a white British preacher who pushed the idea that Christians would be rescued before the world gets bad. Convenient timing, considering folks were calling for the end of slavery and colonialism. Rapture theology gave people a way to avoid dealing with injustice by focusing on escape instead of mobilizing and fighting the systems and structures at play.

My grandparents were saying the end was near when I was a kid, and when I pushed back, they admitted they heard the same thing when they were kids. My Abuela is 95 and still here. So either God is really dragging His feet, or we’ve been missing the point.

So, yeah when you’re convinced the world is ending, everything starts to look like a sign. That’s confirmation bias. It’s easy to ignore injustice or climate change/collapse when you think Jesus is coming back any minute. That turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Stop waiting to be raptured so you can escape and start doing the healing and rebuilding work right here and now. I’m not going to argue with you. Go read a book by scholars who have already debunked all this or go on living in fear. I’m choosing to stay present, do the work, and live in love because fear doesn’t bring people closer to God; love does.

LuzCelenia Arce

This is sad, but also because he’s been involved with fundies I know how much that religious thinking is contributing to feeling like he’s broken and thinking that healing means being fixed.

So, in case you need to hear it let me be the one to tell you healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken; it’s about remembering you were whole all along. It’s the sacred process of peeling back the layers of survival, shame, and silence to reclaim the truth of who you are and then being that person.

Healing isn’t about never being triggered, it’s about having the tools to respond with clarity, boundaries, and self-trust when you are.

It’s the ability to name harm without collapsing and to receive joy without flinching. Healing means your nervous system doesn’t just brace for impact. Healing means learning to expand for pleasure, connection, and truth. It’s not about becoming unshakable, it’s about knowing how to move through the shake without losing yourself.

I hope Justin and anyone who feels like him gets the love, help and support they deserve so they can know what it really means to heal and feel loved.

What does healing mean to you? What does it feel like in your body?