Summertime Musings

08/23/22 • 39 min

Women Beyond Faith

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

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

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Meet Alaine Part 2 --

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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Meet Janice --

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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