Hello, we are dropping a super special update for you guys today. Jay and I, along with our spouses,

Aaron and Becca, have been hard at work behind the scenes on something very exciting.

So without further ado, we want to introduce you to our nonprofit sacred wilderness.

Our mission is to help church abuse survivors heal through telling and sharing their

stories, finding and building like-minded communities, and rehabilitating through spiritual

triage care.

When we started bodies behind the bus, our families were immediately overwhelmed and

grieved by the immense need for victim care and the lack of resources

for those coming out of spiritually abusive faith contexts. By the launch of the second episode,

we'd already started talking about how we can help be a part of bringing healing and restoration

to the people that come to us with their stories. Something we have not talked about before is that since

launching at the end of December, we have spent countless hours on the phone, in our emails,

and in our DMs, hearing stories of people that aren't necessarily even wanting to share

publicly, but feel that they have nowhere else to turn for help. We have been so honored to walk alongside

everyone who has entrusted us with their stories thus far, but realized that the need was greater

than just us hearing and platforming these stories. So from that, sacred wilderness was born.

Jay, did you want to add anything to that? I think it's important to say,

too, that this is a safe place for soul care. All beliefs, you know, whether you're a professing

Christian today or whether you're struggling to believe in anything, it doesn't matter. This is

supposed to be welcome for everyone. And we want to be that safe place for all people because we believe

that the thing that the church has lost the most is just a dialogue between each other through

empathy and understanding. We just care about each other. There's all these rigid rules and

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