EP106: Deconstructing Christianity and Ex-vangelicals Featuring Nadia Meli

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Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 106

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Episode description

Have you ever thought of what it would be like to spend your whole life believing profoundly and firmly in a religion, and then you realise that you have been lied to?

What would you do you heal your religious trauma?

I sit down with Nadia Meli, Portrait Photographer and Writer. Nadia grew up in an evangelical church but later found herself picking holes in the ideologies, asking uncomfortable questions, and getting even more uncomfortable answers.

She later decided that leave the church and her marriage.

In this episode, we discuss what it is like growing up in an evangelical pentecostal church, the trauma it creates, the patriarchy within the church and how to heal and deprogram from the churches influence.

The key topics are:

⛪️ What it's like growing up in an evangelical church

⛪️ How church controls your clothes and hair

⛪️ What church defined gender roles are

⛪️ The patriarchy within the church

⛪️ When Nadia started to see the hypocrisy in the church

⛪️ Why you should question your religion

⛪️ Marriage and Christianity

⛪️ What's it is like dating after being in the church

⛪️ The repression of sexual desire

⛪️ How to deprogram your fear of hell

⛪️ Healing