Life on Side B

Josh is talking this week with Sarah Claire Smith, a licensed mental health counselor and the soul care director at Providencia WPB, where Josh attends. Sarah Claire shares about what is means to listen to your own story in order to process trauma and pain so that we can better engage in healthy community. 

The book Sarah Clair quotes is My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Today, Ashley, Elizabeth and Josh are getting "back to basics," discussing the question: "What do we wish we would have known back when we came out and entered Side B spaces for the first time?" 

This week, Greg Piken is joining us from SoCal and sharing insights as a counselor on how to build emotional resilience in our lives. Josh and Bekah talk with him about working through breakdowns, processing second adolescence, and how to support each other in a community such as the Side B LGBT+ Christian community which has high levels of trauma. 

This week, Bridget Eileen Rivera is back and talking with Henry about her new book, Heavy Burdens. You can tell from his questions that Henry has read this book more than once! They have a great conversation. Pick up your copy of Heavy Burdens today!

This week, we are sharing the recording from the live episode we did at the Q Christian Fellowship conference last month (January 2022). Elizabeth and Grant talk together about confronting shame as queer Christians and especially as Side B Christians. Thank you to everyone who attended and sent in questions!

We are finally back for Season 4! The cohosts are together again and talking about our season theme: the road to resilience. This is probably the most bible references we have ever made on the podcast so get ready. We hope you enjoy it.

The poem Ashley mentions is called "The One Hoss Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Thank you to Matthew Kaal (@matthewkaal on Twitter) for directing us to the name of the poem!

As we get ready for Season 4, we wanted to take this chance to get to know Elizabeth a little more. Josh and Elizabeth sit down to chat about her journey, her newly formed ministry called Kaleidoscope, and what it looks like to share your faith with others as a Christian who is queer and Side B. Learn more about Elizabeth on our team page at lifeonsideb.com/ourteam

Por fin, publicamos nuestro segundo capitulo en español. En este capitulo, Ashley habla con Jan de Puerto Rico sobre su experiencia de ser un cristiano gay y célibe. Hablan de todo un poco, incluyendo como pertenecer a la comunidad en la distancia (cultural, fisica, de lenguaje, etc). 

The cohost team got together in person while attending Revoice 2021 last week and talked about Season 3, what impacted us most, and what we learned. It was great to have multiple friends and listeners We have a lot of exciting news and can't wait for you to hear!

1:21 - Begin discussion on Season 3

25:00 - Announcing Sarah's departure

30:58 - Announcing Elizabeth as a new cohost

44:32 - Milk & Honey Podcast Announcement

As we promised earlier in the season, Scott Herr is joining Grant to talk about being gay and Catholic as we were unable to include a Catholic voice in the Faith Tradition Diversity episode. Scott shares about his experience converting to Catholicism and how his sexual identity and faith relate to each other within the framework of Catholicism.