Exploring Religious Trauma with Carl Lentz and Dr. Teddy Reeves

Deeply Well with Devi Brown

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today, Devi shares a conversation that she leads at the Mental Wealth Expo discussing the profound impact of religious trauma and the courageous work of reclaiming personal agency and trust. Devi shares the stage with Dr. Teddy Reeves, Senior Curator of Religion at the Smithsonian, and Carl Lentz, a former pastor and current strategist at Transformation Church. The conversation focuses on defining religious trauma, recognizing its effects, and finding pathways for healing. The guests discuss various forms of harm inflicted in religious contexts and offer practical advice for those struggling with these experiences. They emphasize the importance of finding personal connection with the divine outside traditional frameworks and encourage listeners to explore their spiritual identity with compassion and autonomy. The episode aims to provide tools for understanding, healing, and rediscovering a relationship with God that is true, expansive, and grounded in personal agency.

Dr. Teddy Reeves IG: @TeddyRashaan

Film & Web Series: gOD Talk Film & Web Series

Learn More: https://ptsem.edu/profiles/dr-teddy-rashaan-reeves/

Carl Lentz IG: @CarlLentz

Lights On Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lights-on-with-carl-lentz/id1747789103

✺

Connect with Devi:

Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devibrown/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeplywellpod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...

Merch: https://devibrown.myshopify.com/

Airbnb Experience: Find your calm in a meditation with Devi Brown

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.0	Guaranteed Human. Take a deep breath in through your nose,
0:35.6	Hold it. breath in through your nose holds it now release slowly again deep inhale hold Deep inhale.
0:56.0	Hold.
1:01.0	Release.
1:12.6	Repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply well.
1:18.6	I am deeply well.
1:26.6	I am deeply well.
1:34.0	I'm Devy Brown, and this is the Deeply Well podcast.
1:58.7	Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land on your journey, a podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self-care.
2:05.5	This is where we heal. This is where we transcend. Hello, everyone.
2:10.5	Welcome back to the show. As always, I'm Debbie Brown. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here.
2:17.2	Today's episode is going to be a little different. We have a special episode plan for today. So this October, some of you
2:19.4	may remember that we gathered for the fourth annual Mental Wealth Expo that was created by my dear
2:27.4	brother, Charlemagne the God. It's an event that I am so proud to be a part of and an organization, the Mental Wealth Alliance, that I'm just so proud to be a part of an organization, the Mental Wealth Alliance, that I'm just so
2:37.8	proud to be a board member of.
2:40.5	So this incredible event has been happening for the last four years.
2:44.8	We bring thousands of people together, usually from all over the tri-state area specifically,
2:53.5	and it is a day full of just really powerful information, opportunity to get connected, treatment, and everything that is
3:01.8	expansive to the conversations happening in our homes around mental health, in our communities around mental
3:08.3	health and well-being.
3:10.4	And so this year was really, might be my favorite.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.