Why is it hard to believe in myself?
Hello friends, and welcome to September. August has been a whirlwind of transition for me. Not in the hectic way, but when it comes to...
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Christina Carlson
- Aug 22
- 3 min
Five F*cking Years
Hello Friends, Five whole years. As someone who grew up in a heightened state of awareness, due to trauma (continual overwhelm), Time has...
Christina Carlson
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Old men avoiding being vulnerable
Me too, though. I spent a lot of time avoiding being vulnerable. Or at least I thought that’s what I was doing. I’m sitting here in a...
Christina Carlson
- Jul 31
- 3 min
Where do I Focus in my healing journey???
I spent so many years inside evangelical and fundamentalist religious systems, trying, fighting, to do and be good. I fought to wake up...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 4
- 2 min
There’s this old belief of mine that tends to sneak in
It’s the idea that I need to be someone other/better/more than I am right now to have what I desire. I notice it often with my work and...
Christina Carlson
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
Five Things No One Tells You When You Start Your Healing Journey:
1. Instagram captions and quippy sayings won’t do anything for you. I think we all want to learn things and the nature of social media is...
Christina Carlson
- Sep 30, 2022
- 4 min
Wild Exvangelical Cocktail of Misery
Two years ago I read a book called the five levels of attachment by Don Miguel Ruiz. In it he talks about how we tend to attach ourselves...
Christina Carlson
- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
What is asking you to Expand?
Hello beautiful humans, Today I have a new episode out with artist and creative doula Molly. In this episode Molly describes spirituality...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Integration
We need time to integrate. There is this mindset that is very pervasive in a lot of places, and I know it was deeply ingrained in...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
Good girl
As a middle child born in the Midwest, I got good at being a good girl. I was told early on that I was just “average” when it came to...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 15, 2021
- 5 min
Interview Series! Session One
Please Welcome Kristin Alvarez! "I'M A TEACHER, WRITER, AND MOTHER WHO IS REMARRIED AND RAISING MY CHILDREN (BOTH BY TWO DIFFERENT DADS)...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 8, 2021
- 4 min
Surviving
I was about 10 when I started having panic attacks. As soon as I was cognizant of reality I was being told about hell, and that I would...
Christina Carlson
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Honoring Endings
I have found it interesting since leaving religion to explore the ideas around endings. Within Evangelicalism it seemed that endings were...
Christina Carlson
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
How do I start to love my body?
So many of us who were raised in toxic religious communities were deeply impacted by purity culture (If you’re not sure what that is,...
Christina Carlson
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Making Friends
In Evangelicalism there was this assumption of friendship. You could join a small group that would meet every week and those people would...
Christina Carlson
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
My Journey Out (part of it)
When I was in the height of my deconstruction I used to take these long walks. I would listen to podcasts like the liturgists, Rob Bell,...
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