Do you ever find yourself wanting to speak up, to change something about your life for the better, but find the words getting stuck in… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 089: Combatting Learned Voicelessness
Transcript In this episode, Reiki master, podcaster and co-star of the recent Hulu documentary “Mormon No More”, Lena Osborne, talks about the importance of listening… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 088: Embracing the Feminine Wisdom in Your Body with Lena Osborne
There is a prevalent myth, particularly in high demand religion, that there exists such a thing as an “ideal woman”. In Christianity, she is described… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 087: Internalized Misogyny and the “Ideal Woman”
Continuing the conversation from last week about Yahweh’s connection to a mother goddess, Asherah, we progress into how she was discredited and divorced in Genesis.… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 086: Yahweh’s Divorce of the Divine Feminine
Christianity and Patriarchy have a long history together, starting with the creation mythology in the first chapter of Genesis. While the scriptural text itself, whether… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 084: “The Serpent Beguiled Me”: How Genesis Set the Stage for 2000 Years of Christian Sexism
In part 2 of our discussion on interdependency, Kevin and I talk about the ground rules needed to create safe space for both parties to… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 083: Building Interdependent Relationships (Part 2) with Kevin Hales
Many times, those of us who are healing from relationships of codependence sometimes slingshot to the other side of the dependence spectrum into extreme independence.… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 082: Building Interdependent Relationships (Part 1) with Kevin Hales
Do you have someone in your life that you love dearly that tends to drive you crazy with their lack of self awareness and emotional… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 081: Safe and Sane Relationships with Emotionally Immature People
This month has been a dumpster fire in the LDS and ex-LDS communities as we’ve watched the Mormon church respond to allegations that they’ve been… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 080: Organizational Narcissism and the LDS Church’s Response to Child Sex Abuse Allegations
The final type of narcissism that you’re most likely to run into in high demand religion is the vulnerable narcissist. This type of narcissist will… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 079: The Victim and the Martyr: Understanding Vulnerable Narcissism
High demand religions often teach us to deny ourselves and spent our lives in the service of others. While service because we’re passionate about a… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 078: The Superior Saint: Communal Narcissism at Church
If you were raised in a high demand religion that prized unquestioning obedience even if it harmed you or someone you cared about, believed that… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 077: Spiritual Elitism and the Self Righteous Narcissist
Before we embark on a series exploring covert narcissism in high demand religion, I think it’s important we address one of our collective biggest fears:… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 076: Am I a Narcissist?
In this last installment of our 4 part discussion we explore one final possibility for why it can be so hard for us to rest… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 075: Numbing Your Emotions with Busyness
This week we dig further into why so many of us continue to work even when our bodies and minds are begging with us to… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 074: Why You Feel Guilty About Resting, Part 3: Insecure Overachievement