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You Lied to Me About God

A Memoir

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You Lied to Me About God

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A courageous, vulnerable, and spellbinding memoir that explores with visceral impact what happens when harm starts at home—and is exalted as God’s will.

For fans of Unfollow and Jesus Land, You Lied to Me About God explores spiritual abuse, intergenerational trauma, and weaponized faith

At nine years old, Jamie Marich asked God to end it all.

Doing it herself would be an irrevocable sin: an affront to the church and her father’s God. She prayed instead for the rapture, an accident, a passive death—anything to stop the turmoil of feeling wrong: wrong in her body; wrong in her desires; wrong in her faith in a merciful God that could love her wholly as she was.

You Lied to Me About God explores the schisms that erupt when faith is weaponized, when abuse collides with the push-and-pull of a mixed religious upbringing that tells you: no matter which path you choose—no matter what you know in your heart to be true—you’re probably damned.

With resilience, strength, and gut-punching clarity, Marich takes listeners through a tumultuous coming-of-age marked by addiction, escapism, spiritual manipulation, misogyny, and abuse. She shares with unflinching detail the complicity of her mother’s silence and the lengths her father went to assert dominance and control over her body, her desires, her identity—and even her eternal soul—”for her own good” and with a side of televangelistic hellfire.

Hitting a breaking point, Marich embarks on pilgrimage: from shrines in Croatia to ashrams in Florida, she reckons with what it means to come home to a faith that heals and accepts her wholly as she is: in her queerness, in her body, and in her deep relationship to an expansive and loving God.

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©2024 Jamie Marich, PHD (P)2024 North Atlantic Books
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"An intimate and important memoir of deconstructing and reconstructing faith after abuse."—Kirkus, starred review

"Dr. Marich takes us on the pages of her own journey ... encouraging us to embrace our own stories in the hopes of finding the healing that we deserve."—ALYSON STONER, mental health advocate, actor, and founder of Movement Genius

"Dr. Marich reflects the truth that 'everything belongs.'"—CHRISTINE VALTERS PAINTNER, PhD, REACE, OblSB, author and online abbess at Abbey of the Arts

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As someone who also grew up in the Catholic faith and who has issues with organized religion it was nice to see how someone also felt as well. Jaime Marich is a wonderful story teller and I highly recommend everyone to read this book.

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Honest take on spirituality, mental health, and organized religion

I loved Jamie’s raw unfiltered journey through life, religion, and finding her own take on who God is to her. I could not stop listening to her story.

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