Season 1
Episodes
The Sinfulness of Selfhood: Why Differentiation Feels Dangerous After Mormonism
Episode 51: The Sinfulness of Selfhood: Why Differentiation Feels Dangerous After Mormonism
There is a word the church uses for a woman who trusts her own mind over the institution. The word is proud. There is a word...
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Why You Can't Say No: How the Mormon Church Hijacks Consent
It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I really understood what consent meant. I knew the word. I could have given you a definition. But the actual lived understanding of it — what it means to check in with...
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You Know More Than You Think: Rebuilding Self-Trust and Inner Authority After the Mormon Church
You've said it a hundred times. About what you want, who you are now, what comes next. I don't know. And it feels true — honest, even. But what if "I don't know" isn't always a fact? What if sometimes it's a thought...
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The Loop — How High-Control Religion Uses Shame to Keep You Coming Back
Mormonism didn't just teach you to feel shame. It built a system where being human was the problem — and the church was the only solution.
In this episode, Kristin breaks down exactly how that system works: how...
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Beyond the Rulebook: How to Build a Values-Driven Life After the Mormon Church
What do you do with your conscience when the institution that claimed to own it is gone? This episode is about one of the most disorienting parts of leaving — not the grief, not the social fallout, but the quiet,...
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After Mormonism: How to Rebuild Your Identity When You Don't Know Who You Are Anymore
There's a particular kind of silence that happens after everything collapses and before anything new has taken shape. You're not who you were. You're not yet who you're becoming. And nobody around you quite...
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Fron Obedience to Inner Authority: How to Start Living Self Directed After Mormonism
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
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
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
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
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)
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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