Mormon to Muse

Mormon to Muse

Hosted by: Kristin Martineau

Mormon to Muse is a podcast for post-Mormon women ready to heal, reconnect, and reinvent themselves—one creative step at a time. Leaving Mormonism isn’t just about letting go of a belief system, it’s about rebuilding...

Episodes

38- Reclaiming Flow: How Women Rediscover Themselves Through Creativity

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Flow isn’t passive happiness. It’s deep immersion. It’s the state where time bends, self-consciousness softens, and you stop narrating yourself long enough to fully engage in what you’re doing. And research shows it’s...
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37- Why Traditional Spirituality Doesn't Work for Women

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For many women, spirituality was never meant to make us smaller—but that’s often what it did. In high-demand religious systems, spirituality is frequently defined by obedience, self-suppression, and service to the...
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36 - Audacity over Permission

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Audacity Over Permission Why Waiting Isn’t Wisdom—and Showing Up Changes Everything. We’re often taught that patience is a virtue. That waiting is wise. That if we just prepare a little more, heal a little more, learn...
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35- Creating during Chaos

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  Feel calmer in 5 minutes.  Click HERE to download free anxiety calming art prompt.   Want to be the first to know when an in person class opens? Sign up HERE so you won't miss it! There’s a belief that surfaces...
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34- Why I Hate Self Care

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CLICK HERE to get on the interest list for in person classes in Utah.  You'll be the first to get all the details when a class opens.   We’re told self-care is the answer — but what if it makes you feel irritated,...
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33- Goals without Overwhelm

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Setting goals is supposed to feel empowering—but for many of us, it quietly turns into pressure, self-judgment, and nervous-system overload. In this episode, we explore why goals so often create overwhelm (especially...
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32 - What "A Better Life" Actually Means After Mormonism

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Creating a better life after Mormonism doesn’t mean building the opposite life. It doesn’t mean dismantling every discomfort, rejecting everything you were taught, or proving that leaving was “worth it.” In this...
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Episode 31 - The Stage Where Everyone Quits (The Four Stages of Learning)

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What if the frustration, self-doubt, and awkwardness you feel when learning something new isn’t a sign you’re failing—but proof that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be? In this episode of Mormon to Muse, we...
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Episode 30 - The Cost of Distraction

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Get the Anxiety Soothing art prompts HERE Distraction isn’t a personal failure. It’s a symptom. In this episode of Mormon to Muse, we explore distraction not as a productivity problem—but as an attention and devotion...
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Episode 29 - Abundance as Rebellion

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Leaving a high-demand system like Mormonism often leaves us with an unexpected residue — a deep, body-level sense of scarcity. Scarcity of time. Scarcity of worth. Scarcity of permission. Scarcity of possibility. In...
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28- Reclaiming New Meaning: Holidays After Mormonism

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Hi friends, Get my Anxiety Soothing Art if you need a small ritual to bring peace.  This week on the podcast, we’re talking about rituals—the ones we inherited, the ones we outgrew, and the ones we’re allowed to...
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Episode 27 - The Psychology of Internalized Constraint

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What happens when the rules you grew up with continue running your life long after you’ve left the system that taught them? In today’s episode, we’re talking about internalized constraint—the invisible expectations,...
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