exreligious

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

Honoring Endings

I have found it interesting since leaving religion to explore the ideas around endings. Within Evangelicalism it seemed that endings were...

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,...

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...

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,...