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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… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 023: What Is Religious Trauma Syndrome?

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… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 022: Trigger Warning: Understanding What Triggers Our Trauma

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… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 021: Female Financial Empowerment with Financial Coach, Lisa Schader

Today we’re talking about something different and a little woo-woo but that has also been so effective in helping many of my clients and me heal from wounds created in our childhood. All of us have some trauma in our past. Sometimes we experience big T trauma: things we usually think of as traumatic, neglect… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 020: Reparenting Your Inner Child

If you struggle with people pleasing and/or codependent patterns with people you care about, it’s at least in part because you struggle with setting healthy boundaries. So many of us were taught that not having clear boundaries was a sign of love and trust. But actually, it’s the exact opposite. Trusting relationships all include healthy… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 019: Creating Healthy Boundaries

One of the most difficult parts of leaving religion is often telling our loved ones. We want to be honest and transparent about our decisions, but we also want our families to still accept and love us. We often try to accomplish both by doing hundreds of hours of research and soul searching to find… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 018: Loving Your Reason For Leaving with Life Coach, Kara Sakievich

If you find that you have an impossible time saying no, apologize for everything even when something is not your fault, are exhausted trying to meet the needs of others, and can’t remember the last time you had guilt-free free time….you may be a people pleaser. People pleasing is simply another coping mechanism we developed… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 017: To All Of My Fellow People Pleasers

Perfectionism is a coping mechanism we develop in order to keep ourselves safe from emotional discomfort. Listen to this episode for more information about how perfectionism develops and what it feels like for those who experience it. Learn the differences between high achievers and perfectionists and the difficulties perfectionists often experience on their path to… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 016: Identifying and Healing Perfectionism

We talk a lot about shame, but when you’ve been raised your whole life in a high-shame culture, sometimes it can be hard to detect it in everyday life, even in other people. I recently read Mike McHargue’s book “Finding God in the Waves” and the last bit of the book was full of lingering… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 015: What Does Shame Actually Sound Like?

Do you find it really hard to forgive yourself when you make mistakes? Are you harder on yourself than anyone else? Many of us were taught that having compassion for ourselves would lead to weakness and self-indulgence, but studies over the past decade have proven differently. Self compassion has been shown to be a trait… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 014: Developing Self-Compassion