Dr. Josie McSkimming - Rebuilding Identity

03/08/23 • 59 min

REBUILDING IDENTITY
Dr. Josie McSkimming
Divorced: Evangelical Christianity
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Dr. Josie McSkimming is an Australian social worker, psychotherapist, lecturer, and researcher. She has been in full time private practice since 2000, specializing in relationship therapy and adult mental health.
In her book Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Re-construction of Identity, Dr. McSkimming details the stories of those who have left Christian fundamentalist churches and how they change after they have left.
In this episode, we discuss what’s involved in building our post-religious identity.
FIND Dr. McSkimming:
https://twitter.com/JosieMcskimming
LINKS
https://us.amazon.com/Leaving-Christian-Fundamentalism-Reconstruction-Identity/dp/1138580333/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D9ECG99HRIDO&keywords=josie+mcskimming&qid=1669163302&sprefix=josie+mcskimming%2Caps%2C323&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb
https://www.mcskimming.com.au/publications.html
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED
https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/
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Christy Powell
Divorced: Fundamentalist Christianity
Christy Powell (he/him) is a Texas-based counselor and activist with a focus on religious trauma and romantic and sexual relationships of all sorts and sizes. Christy works with clients to explore questions of gender and orientation, kink and polyamory, out of control sexual behavior, and healing from religious shame.
We first connected when I was a guest on the Secular Sexuality show on YouTube, where Christy is one of the hosts. Today, Christy and I discuss his journey from fundamentalist Christian virgin to sexually liberated atheist.
FIND CHRISTY
https://www.vcatx.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SecularSexuality/featured
RESOURCES MENTIONED
https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/
https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/
https://www.journeyfree.org/
The God Virus, by Dr. Darrel Ray
Sex and God, by Dr. Darrel Ray
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Willie Cartwright - Saved to Sane

Willie Cartwright - Saved to Sane
Divorced: Christianity
WILLIE CARTWRIGHT is a speaker, entrepreneur, author, and advocate. Willie is a professional person, having received a B.S Degree in Finance and earned an Executive MBA.Though he and his wife now own several successful businesses, Willie and his sister were raised by a single mother in the public housing neighbourhoods of Birmingham, Alabama.
As a child, he was relentlessly bullied due to his thick glasses and stutter. His stepfather was so verbally abusive that Willie threatened to kill him.Raised in a strict Christian household deep in the Bible belt, Willie walked away from organized religion and Christianity in 2015.
After doing exhaustive research on the topic, he wrote his most recent book: From Saved to Sane: My journey away from Christianity and how it has adversely affected the African American Community. Today, Willie shares about the impact his deconversion had on family relationships and why he is so passionate about educating on religion and critical thinking.
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FIND WILLIE CARTWRIGHT
https://www.williecartwrightspeaks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCktoA5hQZBI03PIQAOoS2nQ
https://www.facebook.com/WillieCartwrightSpeaks/?fref=ts
https://twitter.com/wocartwright
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Dr. Darrel Ray at CORT2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgclZY5X6B4
Jeremiah Camara http://jeremiahcamara.com/
Mandisa Thomas https://blacknonbelievers.org/
Candace Gorham https://twitter.com/ebonyexodus
https://www.seculartherapy.org/
https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/
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