This week’s guest is the content creator, @boundless_and_free. Boundless grew up in a good Christian home, attended a PCA church and believed all was well in her life. She would later learn the term CPTSD and understand that a “good Christian upbringing” may not have been quite what she’d thought. In college, Ms. Free first experienced anxiety and depression but had no vocabulary for it. The Church rarely discusses these things. It wasn’t until the “perfect life” she’d been promised began to unravel that she realized she needed a different way to understand “god” and herself . Now, as a “parts work” therapist, she helps others on their own journeys. Her personal experience of the divine centers around the ways that humans are connected to one another and the universe. Once again—whether someone leaves religion and becomes an atheist or continues on a spiritual journey—the real purpose in life comes from connecting with other people. We are all in this together, and we each get one life to leave this world better than we found it. Links Counseling Website http://theempoweredselfcounseling.com/ Boundless and Free on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/boundless_and_free/ Religious Trauma Institute https://www.religioustraumainstitute.com/ Secular Therapy Project https://www.seculartherapy.org/You are not broken, you are human https://gracefulatheist.com/2016/12/06/you-are-not-broken-you-are-human/ Interact For quotes, recommendations and more see the full episode show notes https://gracefulatheist.com/2022/10/23/arline-interviews-boundless-and-free/ Join the Deconversion Anonymous Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/deconversionSecular Grace https://gracefulatheist.com/2016/10/21/secular-grace/Deconversion https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/Deconstruction https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/#deconstruction/ Attribution "Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats https://makaihbeats.net/