The Life After Podcast

Rev. Dr. Sheri Pallas (activist, ally) joins the show to discuss "God" (and why she uses quotes), how an injustice done by a church toward her family pushed her to care deeply about religion, and her perspective on Deconstruction Culture as someone who left fundamentalism years ago ("deconstruction legacy," I'm calling it 😉).

Find Sheri's website at sheripallas.com and her YouTube channel at youtube.com/FiresideCreators.

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Content Warning: This episode includes mentions of sexually predatory behavior and the retelling of a racial, anti-fatness comment

Emily Dukes joins The Life After to tell how her love for Christian fiction put her on the path to be groomed (use of privileged relationships to normalize exploiting a young person's body) by novelist Ted Dekker, what she's discovered about herself, and how she's pushing back.

This episode begins with Brady retelling his experience of being groped by a trusted church friend during the beginning of his deconstruction.

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Welcome to The Life After Podcast Season 3!

Chuck Parson joins the show one last time as co-host to catch up, announce his departure, and tease his next steps.

Stay tuned this season of The Life After Podcast for more important conversations with courageous people about deconstructing Christian beliefs!

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Alice Grecyzn (actress and upcoming author) re-joins Chuck and Brady to update her life since the recording of the last episode months and months ago.

Follow her important work helping deconstructors at www.daretodoubt.org.

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Alice Grecyzn (actress and upcoming author) joins Chuck and Brady to discuss her life after homeschooling as a PK, the Toronto Blessing (a charismatic movement in the 90's), and an almost-wedding pressured upon her by prophecy.

Follow her important work helping deconstructors at www.daretodoubt.org.

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Denver-based counselor and coach, Suandria Hall, joins Chuck and Brady to unpack her Life After.

Suandaria's father was a preacher. So much of her life was entrenched in church culture, filled with rules and expectations. After learning beyond what the Bible could offer, she became interested in why people do what they do. She landed on counseling with an emphasis on religious trauma. Though her religious trauma experience didn't begin until leaving the community, she became a mental health provider for those leaving the faith. She helps people set boundaries, have healthier relationships with forgiveness, and become empowered to be who they are without indoctrinated expectations.

In this episode, they also discuss:

• what it means to be "trauma-informed"

To get in touch with Suandaria, visit her website, mychoicemypower.com.

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The Life After Podcast Hosts, Chuck Parson (R) and Brady Hardin (L), take a pause on their backlog of upcoming episodes to have a special, no-guest episode to address Coronavirus.

In this episode, they discuss:

-how to keep End-Time anxiety at bay during current events

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Victoria Lynn Myers (model) joins Chuck and Brady to unpack her life after!

She grew up in a very strict, Independent Baptist home with many, many rules, but Victoria noticed she didn't value the beliefs over her experience like those around her. When her church community showed obsessions with modesty, she knew there were still horrible sexual abuse occurring.

Her world turned up-side down when Victoria had an empowering sexual experience with someone of the same gender, an act her community strictly forbade as shameful and wrong. That wasn't Victoria's experience, and she wasn't set on reading from their script. Instead, she left the shelter of her family and church community to experience the world that she was conditioned to fear. When she faced difficulties on her own, including sexual abuse, she had to lean on herself and pulled through victoriously.

Listen to Victoria's brave story of overcoming oppression and showing her true self to the world.

Visit Victoria's website here: victorialynnmyers.com

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 CW: This episode includes mentions of race-based physical abuse, racial slurs, sexual abuse, and mention of childhood violence.