Liberate Your Story Podcast

Freeing our femininity becomes a work of self-love and self-care. But it is also a work of liberation.

Are you a victim of your beliefs or a creator of them? And how do we all experience the same world differently? We take in the same information and expect that we will all have the same conclusion or belief...but we don't. How can we feel so far apart on issues that seem so easy, so obvious? And how can we live in the same house and still have differing views on life? Your experien

Submission was the teaching/mandate/calling we got in Purity Culture AFTER the alter. I'm not holding back on this one because my experience in the evangelical church was truly vile. AND...even if yours wasn't, you may have held some level of this oppressive belief. I absolutely hate what this belief has done to both women and men. And I was responsible for perpetuating its hurtful

I was a teen in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I was a committed member of Purity Culture. I could have been a poster child for the movement if there had been one other than Joshua Harris. Purity Culture suited me in more ways than I understood back then. It was safe and actionable. It had outcomes and it felt really good to be good. Here’s the thing though. I have spent o

Who are you allowed to be? We have influences throughout our lives that embed, or hardwire, ideologies into our social and coping skills. We learn who we are allowed to be without engaging in the experience of rejection. We learn morally through faith systems (culture and beliefs) what is acceptable to remain “in” or “holy”. These are powerful forces in our minds, aren’t

I’m going to challenge you in this episode to unravel a very powerful word in the religious world that most likely will have created strategies for how you live or lived your life. This word is Sovereign.

Obedience. So how did this word get into our marriages? Or our context of spirituality? And why does this word feel like a threat or a weapon used toward women?

Sometimes I wondered if this was the 11th commandment in the Bible. The one specifically made for women.

If all of my value, my worth, and my identity were in someone else, then there was no value in being me. It was a devastating realization. It was a realization that put me on the floor like a thud. I didn’t get there overnight, but at the moment when I allowed the internal conflict to speak up, then that moment was a thud heard throughout my entire being. How are our identities f

You see a story on TV or through your social media feed about someone who did something (or didn’t do something) that makes you say to yourself (or if you’re like me, you say it out loud) “What were they thinking?!” "How did they think THAT was ok?" "Where did the common sense go?". Feel familiar? Let's talk about it!