Welcome back Colin Ryan, author, storyteller, comedian and survivor of Bipolar 2, OCD and ADHD. Colin has written Epic Tiny Victories: A hopeful story about depression anxiety and reframing your life. It is hilarious, honest and poignant.

Colin describes in the book growing up Evangelical, purity culture and his deconstruction process.

Join us as we catch up on where Colin's deconstruction journey is at. We discuss his mental health journey. Colin tells stories from the book.

Get Epic Tiny Victories today.

Links

http://www.epictinyvictories.com/

https://www.colinryanspeaks.com/

2020 Deconversion Anonymous episode of GAP https://gracefulatheist.com/2020/11/29/colin-deconversion-anonymous/

Chapters

00:00 Graceful Atheist Podcast Intro 01:36 Welcome back Colin Ryan 03:50 Deconstruction Journey since 2020 15:27 Epic Tiny Victories and we were all 11 29:44 Impact of therapy on Colin's Life 47:49 Mental Health takes work 52:36 The book process and how to get ETV 64:40 Final thoughts on the episode 66:43 Secular Grace thought of the Week

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For quotes, recommendations, transcripts and more see the full episode show notes https://gracefulatheist.com/2026/03/29/colin-ryan-epic-tiny-victories/

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Secular 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/