Emancipate Your Mind

Many of us were conditioned to believe that religion was the only way to raise ethical, empathic, and responsible children. If you are anything like me, you may have spent weeks worrying about how you were going to raise children with a strong moral compass after leaving high demand religion. Rachel from Post Mormon Parenting… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 041: Raising Ethical Children After Religion with Rachel from Post Mormon Parenting

Many people who have experienced religious trauma have struggled to understand the reasons they had elevated or even ecstatic feelings while attending a church that was also mentally and emotionally harming their sense of well being. Most were even told that those elevated emotions were evidence that the religious teachings were “true” and that any… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 040: Conversations About the Emotion of Elevation and Transcendent Experiences

While studying about intuition, I began realizing that the way people describe the power of intuition sounded incredibly similar to how they described the gift of the holy ghost or being overpowered by the spirit. As I got curious with my findings and asked questions in the Facebook group (the link is below), I realized… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 039: Is The Holy Ghost Ever A Traumatic Doctrine?

One of the biggest sources of confusion after leaving high demand religion is trying to discern whether the gut reactions you’re having stem from your inner knowing or from your indoctrination. In this episode, we explore ways to tap into your bodily sensations and your emotional experience to tell whether you’re feeling intuition or a… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 038: Hello? Is This My Intuition Or Trauma Speaking?

All of the most innovative and successful people report that intuition is a big part of their success. Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs…even Paul McCartney. It’s no wonder that we’d want to know more about how this process works. This is why in recent years, with the improvements in brain imaging and… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 037: What We Know About How Intuition Works

Have you ever experienced that feeling of frustration or dissonance when you’re living out of alignment with your core personal values? Are you aware of what your core personal values are? Have you ever given them language? In your religious life, did you find that one of the things you enjoyed was having language for… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 036: Discovering Your Personal Values

I had never heard the term “cognitive dissonance” before going through religious transition, but once I learned what it was it really helped me understand my experience in the church and my difficulty changing behaviors after leaving. It also helps me have more understanding and even compassion for those who discount my personal experience with… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 035: Cognitive Dissonance

This episode was inspired by a debate I had with a childhood friend over the word “indoctrination” a few months ago. She believes that we can’t teach children morals or how to live happy, successful lives without indoctrinating them. That didn’t feel right to me. So, in true nerd fashion, I researched it. This episode… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 034: Education or Indoctrination?

This week we’re digging into undue influence or mind control. Why? Because one of the bigger concerns I hear from people who have left high demand religion is the fear that they’ll fall prey to deception, misinformation, or undue influence again. So many of us can’t understand why we couldn’t see the coercion clearly and… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 033: Protecting Yourself From Undue Influence

I hear this exclamation more times than I can count in my line of work.  And while there’s something that makes us shy away from looking at whether we may have been victim to authoritarian control, there’s also something liberating about understanding why we made some of the decisions we did. This podcast looks at Steve… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 032: OMG! Was I in a Cult?