The Life After Podcast
Mental Health
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Chuck‘s Goodbye (Reflection x Show‘s Future) with Chuck Parson
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
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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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Bonus Catch-Up Conversation: Alice Grecyzn
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
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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Thursday Apr 30, 2020
We Were Sanctified Holy Rollers (Trauma-Informed x Forgiveness) with Suandria Hall
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
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"
growing up in a black church community
forgiveness culture
why it's okay not to forgive and forget
community building after church
To get in touch with Suandaria, visit her website, mychoicemypower.com.
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Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Distanced Socializing (COVID x Meaning-Making) with Chuck and Brady
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
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-recommendations for staying busy-grieving-meaning-making-Chuck says "fuzzy red balls" and Brady doesn't laugh-Plus A LOT more!
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Growing Smaller (Disordered Eating x Therapy) with Laura M.
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
CW: Anorexia
Chuck and Brady are joined by Laura M, who opens up about her childhood struggling in silence with a Fundamentalism-fueled eating disorder.
Laura, like many women raised in Christianity, was taught to be silent and smaller. When tragedy struck her family, she developed anorexia out of a need to be seen and to have a feeling of control in a time of uncertainty. The eating disorder became increasingly dangerous, leaving her with the ultimatum: Get well or risk death within 28 days.
Listen to Laura's inspiring story of how she gained her life after toxic religion and anorexia with the help of professional therapy. The episode begins with Chuck and Brady's practical mental health advice.
To learn more about eating disorders or to find support, resources, and treatment options for yourself or a loved one, visit, www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
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Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Bye Jesus (Post-Christian Spirituality x Spiritual Abuse) with Carrie Maya
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
CW: This episode includes mentions of race-based physical abuse, racial slurs, sexual abuse, and mention of childhood violence.
Carrie Maya, calling from Australia, opens up to Chuck and Brady about her life after leaving a high-demand Charismatic community, spiritual abuse, and life-long conditioning to submit to authority.
A very tumultuous childhood and extreme Fundamentalism positioned Carried to be victimized by self-seeking authoritative voices. First, it was family. Then her pastor. And finally, an intimate partner. Carrie retells how she changed the narrative and discovered help in finding spirituality outside of Christianity.
To learn more about Carrie and her book, visit her insta @Hexvangelical.
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Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Ambiguous Loss (Grieving x Counseling) with Janice Selbie
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Counselor ("counsellor" for the Canucks) Janice Selbie joins Chuck and Brady for a insightful, practical conversation on grieving God.
Janice came from a ultra-Fundamentalism background that became hyper-charged after marrying her now ex-husband. While working at a bookstore, she befriended a group of Mennonite (Anabaptist) women and began wearing head coverings like they did out of a obedience to the Bible.
Around the time of her divorce, Janice encountered traumas that shook her from her cognitive dissonance, and she left the faith. Next, she pursued a counselor degree, met Dr. Marlene Winell, and now specializes in freeing people from the mental grips of Fundamentalism.
In this episode, Janice shares practical ways to recover from religion healthily, the importance of rituals to symbolize the end of one's Fundamentalism, and how cognitive behavioral therapy can be very useful.
Janice is organizing the first-of-its-kind Conference on Religious Trauma in Vancouver from April 24-26, 2020.
Visit CORT2020.com to learn more! Learn about Janice's online workshop, Divorcing Religion at divorcingreligion.com.
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Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Everyone‘s Agnostic (Ex-Pastor x Rebuilding Community) with Cass Midgley
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Cass Midgley, former pastor and a host of Everyone's Agnostic Podcast, joins Chuck and Brady to discuss his faith deconstruction, how he found his co-host, blind spots developed from being brought up in Patriarchy, turning from Presbyterian to Baptist, the slippery slopes of allowing yourself to examine doubts, and rebuilding of community."Mark Driscoll is the Dane Cook of the Evangelicalism."CW: Brady sings the AWANA theme. And lots of F-bombs.
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