143 Finding Home Again After Religious Trauma with Matthias Roberts

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Adam Young

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Matthias Roberts joins me today to talk about his book Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned By Religion. Topics covered include: why belonging is so crucial for each of us, how to trust when you’ve been betrayed by others so many times before, and why it’s hard to open ourselves to actually receive care when it is available.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I am joined today by Matthias Roberts from Seattle. Matthias, it's good to see you.
0:10.0	It's good to see you, Adam. Thanks for having me. You are so welcome. You're here today to talk about a book that you've published. It's your second
0:17.4	book actually and this one is called Holy Runaways, Rediscovering Faith after being burned by religion.
0:27.0	What a title.
0:29.0	So before we get into the book, can you just share a little bit about kind of who you are, where you live, I already said
0:35.6	Seattle, what you spend your time doing?
0:37.6	Yeah, you know, I consider myself primarily a therapist. That is my day job. It's what I love to do. Kind of consider that my primary
0:45.5	vocation. Specialize in working with religious trauma, spiritual trauma, but also do a lot of work with
0:52.2	LGBTQ folks and to trauma but also do a lot of work with LGBT
0:52.8	folks and to that end that's kind of where my writing
0:58.1	centers although not exclusively so but trying to help queer folks or people who have been kind of
1:06.2	cast out by their faith communities find healing, find wholeness.
1:10.8	I've done a lot of work with the Allender Center and that's how we met. We were in
1:14.9	an externship together and have been a facilitator there. So let's talk about this word
1:22.4	runaway, holy runaways.
1:24.1	We're going to get to the word holy in a minute, but first let's just talk about a
1:26.8	runaway.
1:27.8	What do you mean by a runaway?
1:30.8	I think what comes to mind for me first, and imagine for many people is just that image of like running away from home. I open with stories in the book around my when I ran away from home when I was a kid. It's just like that need to get away from a place because we're
1:46.7	dissatisfied with it.
1:49.1	So that is a primary meaning, but I also think about the ways that, you know, I think as we get older, we do, we fully run away.
1:57.0	Like my runaway attempts as a kid, I always returned back home.
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