Deconstructing Your Faith Without Losing Yourself [262]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Deconstruction can seem daunting, and you might find yourself becoming fearful of even starting. But let me tell you this: Deconstruction doesn’t have to mean losing your church family. Deconstruction doesn’t have to mean losing your faith. Deconstruction doesn’t have to mean losing your relationship with God.
In today’s episode, Angela Herrington joins us to talk about the following:
- How faith deconstruction intersects with the process of healing from emotional and spiritual abuse
- How you can deconstruct and still keep your church and the people within it who matter to you
- What role forgiveness plays in our faith journey if we’ve experienced abuse, and so much more.
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Related Resources:
- Pre-order Angela’s book coming out on February 20th, 2024, Deconstructing Your Faith Without Losing Yourself.
- Join Angela’s free Facebook community today and get the support you deserve without pressure to be someone you’re not.
- Check out Angela’s website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
- If you are a Christian woman who thinks you may be in an emotionally destructive marriage, learn more at https://flyingfreenow.com
- I'll send you (free!) the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage, which has an assessment to help you figure out if your relationship is abusive or not. All you have to do is hop on my mailing list.
- You can also find out about our online education and support program for women of faith at https://joinflyingfree.com.
- And finally, if you are a divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, lose weight, have amazing relationships, get things done, build a business or career, and even find a good man (if you want one) - check out Flying Higher.
Angela is a faith deconstruction coach and host of The Deconstructing Faith Summit who helps people break free from toxic religious culture & empowers them to recover from #churchhurt. Her first book, Deconstructing Your Faith Without Losing Yourself, will be published by Eerdmans in February 2023. Angela is a wife, mom to 5, and a proud resident of Marion, Indiana, with her family when they’re not traveling the US in their RV.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 262 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today I have with me the author of a brand new book called |
| 0:31.6 | Deconstructing Your Faith without losing yourself. |
| 0:35.2 | Her name is Angela Harrington and she is a faith deconstruction coach and the host of |
| 0:42.0 | the Deconsructing Faith Summit. |
| 0:44.8 | She helps people break free from toxic religious cultures. |
| 0:48.6 | And today we are going to have a discussion about the subject of her new book. |
| 0:52.6 | So welcome Angela. |
| 0:54.2 | Thank you, thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, so first of all, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself |
| 1:00.3 | and why or how your work has led you to this helping people specifically with |
| 1:06.1 | deconstructing their faith. Sure, so I'm Angela, as you said. I've been a |
| 1:10.6 | coach for a little over a decade and people are often surprised to learn that I came to |
| 1:16.1 | deconstruction by going to seminary. So I went to a wonderful seminary, but it does what seminary should do, which is challenge you to really get into |
| 1:26.3 | the nitty gritty of what you believe. And I was working on a master's degree and leadership |
| 1:31.5 | and doing a research project on the opportunity. degree and |
| 1:35.0 | to leadership on the opportunity for women to be mentored and to step into leadership |
| 1:38.7 | positions in the church. |
| 1:40.3 | And as we know, there's a stained glass ceiling. And so I was able to interview some brilliant women very high up in a few different denominations who do affirm women in leadership and find out that there were a lot of doors still closed. |
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