How Skipping Church Helped Reduce My Anxiety & Depression
5 min readAug 3, 2021
I can honestly say my relationship with God and my depression improved once I stopped going to church.
My traditional Black church was toxic. I think I knew it for a while but was in denial. Certain things — just bothered me. Like the way everyone in the church gossiped, or, how my father made family decisions based upon how it would look in the eyes of his church…