Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome

By Reba Riley

Reba Riley's twenty-ninth birthday was not a good time to undertake a spiritual quest, but when chronic pain prompted her to focus on one thing she could fix - her whopping case of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome - she undertook a challenge: Visit thirty religions before her thirtieth birthday.

During her spiritual sojourn, Reba: Danced the disco in a Buddhist temple; Went to church in virtual reality, a movie theater, a drive-in bar, and a basement; Got audited by Scientologists, mobbed by NPR junkies, and killed (almost); Fasted for thirty days without food; Learned to meditate with an Urban Monk, sucked mud in a sweat lodge with a Suburban Shaman, and snuck into Yom Kippur with a fake grandpa; Discovered she didn't have to choose religion to choose God ... or good. For everyone who has ever needed healing of body or soul, this poignant, funny memoir reminds us all that transformation is possible, brokenness can be beautiful, and sometimes we have to get lost to get found.

~ Crystal