Carrie's back!  Join us as she share's the rest of her journey up to present day. May her badassery inspire you!

Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover their worth through practices of pleasure.  She believes that every single part of us is deserving of love and actively works to reawaken the spirit to a life of abundance.  When she's not tending to her children or seeking adventures around the world, she's busy hosting the "Clearly Connected Podcast" where she invites listeners to reimagine all the ways they can reconnect to themselves, to others, and to our natural environment.

Website: www.carriedoan.com

           Clearly Connected Podcast 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clearly-connected/id1602454881

           IG @carriedoancoaching

Carrie's Dare to Desire Ebook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0ola898j2QbPHX9PpjzNLCeCMD76QYA/view

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#findingfreedom
#onestoryatatime
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Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover their worth through practices of pleasure.  She believes that every single part of us is deserving of love and actively works to reawaken the spirit to a life of abundance.  When she's not tending to her children or seeking adventures around the world, she's busy hosting the "Clearly Connected Podcast" where she invites listeners to reimagine all the ways they can reconnect to themselves, to others, and to our natural environment.

Website: www.carriedoan.com

           Clearly Connected Podcast 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clearly-connected/id1602454881

           IG @carriedoancoaching

Carrie's Dare to Desire Ebook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0ola898j2QbPHX9PpjzNLCeCMD76QYA/view

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Janice Selbie is a Registered Professional Counsellor and religious recovery consultant. She Divorced Religion after nearly 40 years in the Pentecostal (and briefly, Mennonite) denomination. After also divorcing her husband, Janice went back to school to become a counsellor and founded the Divorcing Religion Workshop, the Conference on Religious Trauma (aka CORT), and the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference.

Here's additional details regarding Janice's offerings: 

• One-on-one consulting to help you understand your own religious trauma syndrome and what recovery can look like -- https://www.divorcing-religion.com
• The Divorcing Religion Workshop  an on-line, live,  6-week supportive small group designed to help you transition out of religion and into secular life --https://www.divorcing-religion.com
• Janice's first Shameless Sexuality -- An online conference for survivors of Purity Culture and their helpers will be held October 14-16, 2022 -- https://www.shamelesssexuality.org
•  The Conference on Religious Trauma (CORT) where past speakers represent a variety of fundamentalist religious backgrounds including Amish, Evangelical, Mormon, Muslim, and Hasidic Orthodox Judaism -- https://www.religioustraumaconference.org
• And -- lastly -- there's the CORT YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhyTXTIM9kdTJ1jW-Ckb5g

From CORT's vision statement: 
There are widespread assumptions that religion in general is good or at least harmless.  Yet people are seriously hurt by religious doctrines and practices every day.  This has to end.
        ---  Dr. Marlene Winelll

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Work. Family. Vacations. Nude Beaches. Putting into practice the Speaking Up and Speaking Out. 

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Alaine is back! In this episode she shares the pain, isolation and wonder associated with deconstruction.

It takes considerable courage to confront cognitive bias head on. Many of us, hoodwinked since childhood,  become driven to discover the truth. We're so over the BS!  We sprint forward – often times ignorant to the enormity of the fallout for doing so.

Alaine carried on. She kept asking the questions and fought hard to find honest answers.  

Still working through the aftereffects of her deconstruction. Alaine moved to the D.C. suburbs, leaving her family behind.  She’s starting over.

A new career. A new city. A new Alaine.

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Alaine is a Gen-X former evangelical raised in the Deep South who found out the hard way that the unconditional love of Jesus had more than a few conditions.

When her world began to crumble following a difficult divorce, her strict, conservative family and Southern Baptist community were not there for her the way she expected. Their shunning pushed her to question all the beliefs she’d clung to her whole life. 

A support group for women of faith showed her how many verses in the Bible had been mistranslated and misappropriated through the years to support patriarchal theologies detrimental to women—and if this was possible, what ELSE in the Bible might not be the literal “Word of God”? 

Alaine’s intense journey of deconstruction has led her down new roads away from almost everything and everyone in her former world. Today, identifying as an atheist/humanist, she is rebuilding her life and career as a paralegal in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

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Bess is back from rural Pennsylvania to share with us the rest of her story – at least up to current day Spring of 2022. 

In her mid 20s and wise beyond her years Bess talks university, working through anxiety and panic attacks, therapy, finding the love of her life, managing relationships with still believing family members, and finding community with other out of the box thinkers in her small town. 

Bess is an animal lover and her gentle, soft spoken connection with these non-humans offers some calm and serenity during these difficult days -- these days of discovery – these days of redefining the dreams of her youth – these days of finding freedom outside the confines of a religious order – these days of post pandemic uncertainty –  you’ll even her rooster crowing in the background!

Damn! Bess is a badass!!

If you'd like to reach out to Bess, she’d love to chat with you. You can reach her at [email protected].

Bess is learning how to use her voice. She is Speaking Up. And Speaking Out. And in so doing, she is Finding Freedom. On the Other Side. One Story at a Time. 

#WereSpeaking
#WomenBeyondFaith
#FindingFreedom
#OneStoryataTime
#SpeakingUp
#SpeakingOut

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Reagan's back! In this conversation she talks specifics regarding the multiple small businesses she runs here in the Greater Cincinnati area. 

Reagan is a career coach, professional photographer, CEO of a Nature Preschool, blogger, AND does speaking engagements. Whew! That makes me tired just typing it all out!!  

Reagan continues to inspire me -- she's changing the world by being herself! 

Here's Reagan --  sharing more of her journey -- from evangelical homeschool kiddo to earth loving, tree hugging inspirational homeschool mama and entrepreneur. 

Enjoy the conversation. I’m pretty sure you, too, will continue to be inspired by Reagan’s moxie. 

Find out more about Reagan at the links below:

https://www.playfulacre.com

https://www.instagram.com/playfulacre/

https://www.facebook.com/playfulacre

https://twitter.com/playfulacre

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Reagan is a mom and owner of multiple small businesses here in the Greater Cincinnati area. She grew up in the church. She and her family frequented the same homeschool circles as my family. Her people played on the same homeschool sports teams as my people. Her sister actually dated one of my favorite human’s brother. We knew, and -- still know—a lot of the same people.

I’m not sure how or when I was first introduced to Reagan’s Instagram page. I don’t think I realized at the time that she was someone from our homeschool past, I was just attracted to the passion and pizzazz she oozed.  I loved what she was saying about preserving the magic of childhood and getting kids out in to nature. 

She inspired me. Reagan was raising her kid the way I wished I would have raised my kids. She was teaching me things. 

One day last fall I put two and two together and realized our families used to do life in the same Cincinnati homeschool circles. And I wanted to know more. So -- I reached out and asked Reagan if she’d be interested in sharing her journey -- from evangelical homeschool kiddo to earth loving, tree hugging inspirational homeschool mama and entrepreneur. Luckily, for me and you, she said yes. 

Enjoy the conversation. I’m pretty sure you, too, will be inspired by Reagan’s moxie. 

You can find out more about Reagan at the links below:

https://www.playfulacre.com

https://www.instagram.com/playfulacre/

https://www.facebook.com/playfulacre

https://twitter.com/playfulacre

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Trigger warning: 

This episode contains material that may be difficult for some of our listeners to hear. 

Conversations cover porn, body shaming, Josh Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, statutory rape,  purity culture and abortion. 

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#bodyshaming
#JoshuaHarris #JoshHarris
#IKissedDatingGoodbye
#statutoryrape
#purityculture
#abortion
#sexuallycurious
#shamed
#dating
#relationships
#courting
#courtship
#exvangelical
#boymeetsgirl
#findingfreedom
#onestoryatatime
#speakingup
#speakingout

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Bess is in her mid 20s. She lives in a small rural Pennsylvania town. As you'd expect, she's been surrounded by conservative christians as far as the eye can see for the entirety of her life.  

Raised in the church and educated in christian schools, Bess never fit in. Everyone around her was exactly the same – same beliefs, same hobbies, same skin color, same EVERYTHING!  

Sure, she made attempts to fit in, but as a young teen, Bess determined she could no longer pretend to be someone she wasn't. This authenticity and independence created turmoil within her family of origin -- particularly in the relationship with her father. It wasn't appropriate for a young girl to ask questions and think for herself. 

As an older teen, Bess and her dad came to an understanding that they'd just have to agree to disagree. However, as Bess' faith continued to erode, the conflict returned and this time not only with dad but  into the larger circle of Bess' immediate family.  

Living authentically hasn't been easy.  Bess at times wishes she could just turn off her hunger for truth switch. But for some of us, this is impossible to do!!

We are learning how to use our voices. We’re Speaking Up. And Speaking Out. Finding our Voices. And in so doing, Finding Freedom. On the Other Side. One Story at a Time. 

Enjoy Bess. She’s pretty f*&ing incredible!

#WereSpeaking
#WomenBeyondFaith
#FindingFreedom
#OneStoryataTime
#SpeakingUp
#SpeakingOut

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