Emancipate Your Mind

There's no doubt that those who are able to look at life's challenges with hope and optimism enjoy a lot of proven benefits.

They have less stress, better health, and live longer. They also are able to bounce back from life's challenges with more resilience.

However, sometimes our quest for positivity can actually be harmful. When it encourages us to stuff our difficult emotions and put on a happy face, we can actually cause ourselves micro trauma. Not to mention, when we stuff difficult emotions, we lose touch with our inner knowing and our ability to trust ourselves to handle difficult things.

In this episode, we'll discuss how to cultivate healthy positivity while avoiding toxic positivity messages you often hear in society and in high demand religion.

TRIGGER WARNING: I do read some Bible verses in this episode to illustrate toxic positivity messages in the Bible and how they are used in Christianity.
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Also in this episode, I announced that I am offering a FREE 4-day online course on healing perfectionism. The course is called "Empowered Imperfection" and it'll go live this week.

To receive the free course, check in on Wednesday at my website www.emancipatedcoaching.com and click on the popup for the free course. Add yourself to our newsletter and you'll be automatically sent the course in your email.

I've found that healing our perfectionism tendencies helps us identify and live as our authentic selves so much faster.

I hope you LOVE it! 
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WANT MORE SUPPORT HEALING AFTER RELIGIOUS TRANSITION?

If you'd like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other's company, join my free "Emancipate Yourself" Facebook group at this link:
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Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri. 

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected] 

When we share our stories with those who have earned the right to hear them, we not only help ourselves become more shame resilient, we make safer spaces for others to share their own stories.

When people are shame resilient, they are better able to be authentic, to have compassion for themselves and others, to learn from their mistakes, and to be accountable for the harm they may have accidentally inflicted on someone else.

Terina Maldonado, dynamic and compelling public speaker, author, and life coach, and I talk about how transformative the simple act of sharing our stories can be not only on our own quality of life but in making the world a safer, kinder place for all of us.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains mentions of religious trauma as well as sexual abuse and childhood grooming. 
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WANT MORE SUPPORT HEALING AFTER RELIGIOUS TRANSITION?

If you'd like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other's company, join my free "Emancipate Yourself" Facebook group at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370375144009891

Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri. 

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected] 

Sometimes one of the most helpful tools for healing is understanding what is going on.

When we know that the grief, anger, confusion, fear, loneliness, and sense of feeling displaced are all common when you're experiencing religious trauma, it can make it easier to be patient with ourselves throughout the experience.

You may also experience nightmares, dissociation, flashbacks, or other symptoms common to PTSD.  

Knowing what we're experiencing also helps us seek out help instead of heaping more shame onto our shoulders as we move towards healing our wounds.

In this episode, we explore the syndrome identified by Dr. Marlene Winell in 2011 that describes the common symptoms those with religious trauma experience along with some of my own experiences with the symptoms to help you better identify your own experiences.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains mentions of religious, sexual, and physical abuse. 

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WANT MORE SUPPORT HEALING AFTER RELIGIOUS TRANSITION?

If you'd like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other's company, join my free "Emancipate Yourself" Facebook group at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370375144009891

Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri. 

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected] 

 Have you ever just lost it for no reason and caught yourself thinking, "What in the world is going on with me?"

Have you ever found yourself having a full body panic attack out of the blue?

Have you ever found yourself inexplicably avoiding people you used to love hanging with, but now feel unsafe or threatening?

You may be experiencing trauma triggers.

In this episode, we talk about what triggers are and how they work so that you can stop feeling shame about experiencing them and start getting curious about them.

The more we can understand that our triggers are simply our reptilian brain's best efforts to keep us safe in what it perceives as a dangerous situation, the better able we are to work with them and through them.

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WANT MORE SUPPORT HEALING AFTER RELIGIOUS TRANSITION?

If you'd like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other's company, join my free "Emancipate Yourself" Facebook group at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370375144009891

Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri. 

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected] 

Living a financially free life has less to do with income and more to do with intention.

Often when we come from a high demand religion, we are conditioned to believe that money is the root of all evil.

We may shy away from making too much of it, or having any left over in savings.  

We may also pick up shame or fear messages about what it means to be a working mother.

We can also pick up societal and familial limiting beliefs about money from our upbringing that are passed down through the generations.

Perhaps we learned that budgeting was difficult or meant living a life of lack.

Maybe we thought only "rich people" get to live a financially free life.

Financial Coach, Lisa Schader, says that these beliefs coupled with patriarchal views of women leave women particularly vulnerable to financial abuse. (And yes, that's really a thing.) 

But Lisa helps us bust all of those myths and empower ourselves to get the exact financial futures we hope for and deserve. 

Whether you have a solid understanding of finances, or really aren't sure what financial accounts you have or how to log into them, Lisa gives us shame-resilient ways to become aware of our current financial positions and begin to better chart  our financial futures with some simple adjustments.

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WANT MORE SUPPORT HEALING AFTER RELIGIOUS TRANSITION?

If you'd like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other's company, join my free "Emancipate Yourself" Facebook group at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370375144009891

Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri. 

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected]