Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 58 of the Flying Free Podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about boiling our faith down to one simple thing.

This is something I've had to do,

because my faith got extremely complicated.

And I'll explain in this little lesson. I recently spoke at a conference and two of my talks were

on reclaiming your faith. I had mostly positive feedback, but I also had a little bit of kickback from people who weren't quite

ready to hear some of the things that I had learned on my spiritual journey with Jesus.

They, I think they were wondering if I was throwing out the Bible altogether because I don't know if you believe

submission is for all people or if you think it's okay to break the Sabbath or get a divorce, then surely you are a heretic who no longer believes the Bible, right?

Well, I work with emotional abuse survivors. More specifically specifically I work with female emotional abuse

survival and even more specifically I work with women of faith. Now this niche of women are also dealing with spiritual abuse and

brainwashing around the issues of God and the Bible and church and what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ in our culture.

So there's a lot of tangled up knots here and it's hard to know which came first, the spiritual abuse or the emotional abuse. I think they're

all wound up with one another and to wake up to one is to wake up to the other one

eventually.

Now I've talked about this in other places,

so I don't want to go into a whole lot of detail here,

but I grew up in a conservative Christian home.

We were into the whole Bill

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