Mormon to Muse

Mormon to Muse

Hosted by: Kristin Martineau

You didn't lose your faith. You found out something true — and now you're figuring out who you are on the other side. Mormon to Muse is a podcast for women navigating life after the Mormon church — the faith...

Episodes

Fron Obedience to Inner Authority: How to Start Living Self Directed After Mormonism

Season #1

Leaving a high-control system doesn’t automatically make you self-directed. Many women walk away from Mormonism expecting freedom—but instead find themselves stuck in indecision, self-doubt, and confusion. Why?...
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Why Leaving Feels Like Dying - Understanding Faith Transition Grief

Season #1

Nobody prepared me for the fact that leaving the church might be the hardest thing I ever did — not because I made a mistake, but because of how completely my identity was woven into it. In this episode, I name what...
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You Were Never Just a Calling — Identity Loss and Self-Reclamation After the Mormon Church

Season #1

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with your schedule. It's the exhaustion of spending years showing up, giving, serving — as a version of yourself you never quite chose. In this episode we...
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What Your Resentment Is Trying to Tell You — Anger and Healing in Faith Transition

Season #1

Resentment gets a bad reputation. Most of us have been taught that resentment is something to suppress, overcome, or repent of. Especially if you were raised in a high-demand religious culture, resentment is often...
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Parenting Without Panic — Raising Kids After Leaving the Mormon Church

Season #1

Why managing your emotions matters more than any rule you enforce-  Most parenting advice focuses on what your kids should do. Obey. Choose wisely. Make good decisions. Stay on the “right” path. But what if the real...
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40- The Truth About Awakening — Why Healing Doesn’t Make You Feel Better (and Why It’s Still Worth It)

Season #1

Most people pursue healing, awakening, or personal transformation because they believe it will make them feel better. That eventually, if they do enough work, they’ll reach some stable emotional state where doubt,...
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The Gift of Doubt — Why Questioning Everything Is the Beginning of Knowing Yourself

Season #1

Doubt has a bad reputation. We’re taught to resolve it quickly. To replace it with certainty. To override it with belief, obedience, or confidence. But doubt is not the enemy of creativity. It is the beginning of...
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Reclaiming Flow — How Women Rediscover Themselves Through Creativity After Mormonism

Season #1

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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Why Traditional Spirituality Doesn't Work for Women After Faith Transition — And What Does

Season #1

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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Audacity Over Permission — Reclaiming the Right to Take Up Space After the Church

Season #1

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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Creating During Chaos — Why Your Creative Practice Matters Most When Life Falls Apart

Season #1

  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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Why Self Care Isn't Working — Reclaiming Real Rest After High-Control Religion

Season #1

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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