Welcome to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast.

I'm your host, certified religious transition and trauma recovery coach, Terry Hales.

I help people step out of the shadows of religious fear and shame and embrace their

authentic selves with love and empathy.

If you're ready to throw off the shackles of learned binary thinking and explore

a more nuanced approach to life, this is your playground.

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast.

It's so good to be back from Texas.

And I'm excited to tackle this next segment.

We're going to be talking about parenting after religious trauma, what it's like to parent, some of the concerns that we have, some of the common issues.

And we will be deep diving into some of those concerns that we have, some of the common issues, and we will be deep

diving into some of those issues in the episodes after today. But I thought it would be fun today

to bring Kevin Hales, my husband, and licensed therapist onto the podcast today. We're going to talk

about some of the concerns we had about parenting after leaving high demand

religion, as well as some of the common concerns, anxieties, fears, and subconscious beliefs

we have about parenting that we might have to overcome in order to create the healthy,

safe environments that we're wanting to create for our kids after

deconstructing from high demand religion. So welcome to the podcast, Kevin.

Thank you. I'm excited for our conversation today. We've already kind of conversed a little bit

before this in order to take some notes and make sure that we're on track. And I think we have

some really good conversations to have

today. Yeah, I agree. So, and it sounds like our cat wants to be part of this too. So she may come

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