Katherine Spearing
Author. Artist. Advocate.
Professional Bio
A Mental health professional who writes fiction that flips gender scripts, subverts the patriarchy, and envisions what life could be
Katherine Spearing MA, CTRC is the founder of Tears of Eden, a nonprofit supporting survivors of spiritual abuse, and the former executive producer and host of the groundbreaking podcast Uncertain, a podcast that pioneered pivotal conversations around Spiritual Abuse. She’s also a Certified Trauma Recovery Practitioner working primarily with women who have been impacted by the patriarchy and artists navigating religious trauma.
Katherine is a huge advocate for the power of art to help us on our healing journey. She participates in improv theater both as a performer and coach and is the author of one novel. Her latest book, A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts, addresses the spiritual abuse survivor’s recovery journey. She has been a guest on a number of podcasts, including IndoctriNation and A Little Bit Culty, is the author of several nonfiction articles, and writes regularly at katherinespearing.com and tearsofeden.org.
Book on Spiritual abuse
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Publications
Regular contributor and member of the Editorial Board over at Tears of Eden
A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side, Lake Drive Books (2025, October 15)
Hartfords, Leon Publishing (2021, Oct. 5)
I’ll Thank Words and Maya Angelou: Healing Through Writing and Reading Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery (2024, Aug. 15)
Battling Imposter Syndrome in the Aftermath of Vocational Ministry, Mutuality, CBE International (2023, Aug. 16)
As a female preacher I was treated very differently to my male counterparts - in the end I left Premier (2023, July 26)
Are We Continuing to Sideline Women in Conversations About Abuse? CBE International (Top 10 articles of 2022) Mutuality (2022, January 5)
Was My Family a Cult? I Got Out.org, (2021, November 5)
How to Spot Overt and Covert Spiritual Abuse. Deconstruction Movement (2021, March 17)
In the Media
🎙 Spotify Playlist of Past Episodes
🎙 Sex & Power Healing After Spiritual Abuse
🎙 Sunday School Dropouts: Purity Culture and Spiritual Abuse
✒️ Voyage STL - Life & Work with Katherine Spearing
✒️ Lake Drive Books News - A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts
✒️ Publisher’s Weekly -A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts
🎙 Who We Are and What We Need - Navigating Relationships During Deconstruction
🎙 Taste of Truth Tuesdays - From Burnout to Breakthrough: Healing, Art, and Resilience
🎙 A Little Bit Culty - Prodigal Daughter: Katherine Spearing on the Christian Patriarchy Movement
✒️ Publisher’s Weekly - Spiritual Abuse Survival to Lake Drive
✒️ Lake Drive Books News - Tears of Eden Founder Katherine Spearing to Discuss Spiritual Abuse in Forthcoming Book
🎙 True Believer: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Mackintosh - Let’s Talk About It
🎙The Shanny Pants Show - Spiritual Abuse with Katherine Spearing
🎙 Uncertain - The Stigmatized Single Person (And How to Thrive Anyway) with Katherine Spearing
✒️ Sexvangelicals - How 90s and 00s Rom-Coms Popularized Purity Culture Messaging
🎙 Sexvangelicals - Episode #54: Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse: How Romantic Comedies Can Reinforce the Worst Parts of Evangelical Culture, with Katherine Spearing
🎙 Sexvangelicals - Kicking Off the New Year with Spiritual Abuse: How to Leave a Controlling Family Environment, with Katherine Spearing
🎙 IndoctriNation - Tears of Eden w/ Katherine Spearing MA, CTRC
🎙 That’s So Fcked Up - Evangelicalism, Christianity, Fundamentalism with Katherine Spearing
🎙 Mindful Minds - Recognizing Spiritual Abuse & How To Move Forward with Katherine of @uncertainpodcast - Ep. 70
✒️ Reckon News Article - Meet the healers who are helping people recover from spiritual abuse by Anna Beahm
✒️ Article by Megan Kenyon How I Got Over: An Interview with Katherine Spearing
✒️ Post by Lucy Rowett, Sex & Relationship Coach Trauma and Purity Culture
🎙 Silencing Women in the Name of God - Your Only Purpose is Mother
HeadShots
Lifestyle
Features
Endorsement
“The Uncertain podcast, Tears of Eden, RetreatCon2023 and all of Katherine’s work over the last years add up to a lot more than the sum of its parts. High impact. High integrity. [Tears of Eden] is one of the most solid, balanced and informed organizations that I know of in this field. I am cheering them on to continue strong and bold in their very effective endeavor of supporting and bringing hope to religious abuse survivors.”
Some More Recent Speaking Opportunities
