Recasting Religious Trauma Podcast

/rēˈkast/: to give a different form by melting it down and reshaping it. Understanding the trauma our religion inflicted so we can melt it down and reshape it to create a more whole and vibrant spirituality.

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Dr. Laura Anderson on "When Religion Hurts You"

YOU GUYS. YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS INTERVIEW. I am so excited to bring you this fantastic conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson: religious trauma therapist, co-founder of the Religious Trauma Institute , and founder of the coaching organization Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery . And, she has a book coming out into the world on October 17th called When Religion Hurts You: Healing From Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion . I was honored to speak with her and be able ...

Oct 13, 2023•57 min

You - Yes, YOU - Are Creative Too!

I’m excited to bring you today’s interview about creativity! Even though I’m on here writing most weeks, to be honest, I don’t typically see myself as a creative person. I don’t have great decorating taste like my friends, I can’t assemble an amazing Lego structure out of nowhere like my husband, and when clients want me to paint with them, I paint the same mountain scene every time. Turns out, I needed to hear this interview with Heather! In Ordinary Creativity: How to Survive with Joy , Heathe...

Jul 14, 2023•37 min

"Queer People Deserve to Feel Entitled to Live In Their Hometown"

This interview was a joy to record, and I hope you get as much out of it as I did! I speak with Sarah Lewis, who shares her powerful story at the intersection of lesbian identity and religious trauma. She grew up in a small town as a devout Christian but was taught her sexual orientation was not compatible with her religious identity. She escaped to a place of “queer privilege” for about 15 years but returned home with a mission to make her hometown more inclusive than what she experienced growi...

Jun 30, 2023•55 min

When Drag Shows and a Gay Bar Walk Into Rural Ohio

Happy Pride Month!!! In today’s episode (with extensive quotes / notes below!), I interview Tyler Berry, a fellow resident of Bellefontaine and the owner of The Olive Tree (a gay bar) and the Olive Tree Community Center (an LGBTQ+ / allies safe space!). It was such a fun conversation where we cover what it was like growing up here as a closeted gay person, the meandering journey his business has taken and how, like him, his business finally came out as gay, and of course, plenty about drag perfo...

Jun 02, 2023•38 min

When Childhood Abuse Grooms You For Spiritual Abuse

CW: Sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, narcissistic abuse Today I interview Nicki Pappas, author of the memoir As Familiar As Family: Leaving the Toxic Religion I Was Groomed For and a poetry book, Reflections from a Former Evangelical. She is the host of the Broadening the Narrative podcast. In her memoir, she draws connections between the abuse she experienced as a child and how this created in her a vulnerability that was later taken advantage of by a spiritually abusive pastor and church setting...

Apr 14, 2023•42 min

"When We Grow Up With Complex Childhood Trauma, Our Instinct Is Our Needs Don't Matter."

To read an automated transcript of today’s conversation, you can follow this link . I’ll include some highlights of our conversation below along with some time stamps to help you listen along if you desire! This week we are talking with writer Liz Charlotte Grant, about shifting faith therapy, the process of memoir writing, and the tender topic of navigating family boundaries, including when that extends to ending contact with family members. Our guest, Liz, is an award-winning non-fiction write...

Mar 17, 2023•46 min

Interview with Marla Taviano, author of jaded and unbelieve

You can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts if you prefer (more platforms to come, as well!) I’m delighted to bring you my interview with Marla Taviano! Marla is writer of numerous books, most recently her two books of poetry entitled "unbelieve" and "jaded," with the third in the trilogy to be released later this year. She’s a prolific reader as well as writer, and is the person behind the popular account on Instagram @whitegirllearning (where she posts every single day about a book by a p...

Feb 03, 2023•49 min

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