Season 1
Episodes
The B- Version Is the One That Counts: Overcoming Perfectionism After High-Control Systems
Are You a Perfectionist? Here's Why That's Not the Compliment You Think It Is
Perfectionism gets worn like a badge of honor. I used to wear mine that way too. But underneath the polished exterior, perfectionism isn't...
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7 Things I Wish I Knew During Deconstruction
Faith deconstruction isn't a clean process. You're rebuilding a self while still going to work, parenting, managing a marriage and a household. There's no roadmap for it — you're improvising for the first time in a...
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Making Peace with the Human Void: Why That Empty Feeling Isn't a Problem to Fix
There's a particular kind of longing that shows up even when my life is good. Nothing is wrong. Nothing is happening. And still — something feels missing. A low hum of restlessness, the sense that I forgot something,...
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The Number One Mistake I See Women Who Leave The Church and How to Fix It
You know you don't have to do what everyone else wants anymore. So why is it still so hard to figure out what you want?
If you left the Mormon church and you're still second-guessing every decision, still scanning...
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What Is Eros Energy? Reclaiming Your Aliveness After Leaving the Mormon Church
I spent years experiencing my own aliveness as a problem to manage. I was a mother of young kids, restless out of my mind, bored without intellectual stimulation — and certain something was wrong with me for wanting...
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The Manual You Didn't Write: Why Other People's Behavior Isn't the Problem and How to Reclaim Your Peace After the Church
We don't usually realize it, but most of us are carrying an unwritten rulebook about how the people around us should behave so that we can feel okay. Brooke Castillo calls it a manual, and in this episode I unpack why...
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The Midlife Trifecta: When Faith Identity and Body Shift All at Once
If you're somewhere in your forties and it feels like everything is coming apart at the same time — your faith, your body, your sense of who you are — you're not broken. You're in the midlife trifecta: faith...
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You Were Never Unworthy: How Unconditional Positive Regard Heals the Damage of Mormon Worthiness Culture
What if the system that claimed to be making you good was actually the thing standing in the way?
In this episode we go deep on one of the most important distinctions for women rebuilding after Mormonism — the...
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You Can Trust Your Feelings Again: Emotional Literacy, Embodiment, and Self-Trust After Faith Transition
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There is a feeling you know very well. You felt it in sacrament meeting, reading scripture, bearing your testimony. It was warm. It was certain. It felt like coming home to...
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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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