Feeling Like You Don’t Belong? Here’s Why You Might Be Wrong [Flying Higher Moment 012]

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Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Narcissism, Christianity, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual, Christian, Self-improvement, Education, Divorce, Marriage

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Have you ever felt like you don’t belong anywhere—like you’re floating between worlds, disconnected from faith, family, or community? You’re not alone. In this episode, we dive into a powerful shift happening in Christianity, where people are seeking belonging before belief. But what happens when you feel like you don’t belong anywhere? We unravel the truth about belonging, challenge the cages we’ve been taught to stay in, and explore what it really means to be free. If you’ve ever questioned your place in the world, this personal message from me to my private community might just change everything. (Yes, I'm giving you a little taste of working with me inside the Kaleidoscope!)

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0:00.0	Hey, beautiful butterflies. I just wanted to check in because we had a great discussion in our flying higher, in my live mentorship program, flying higher. We were going through the book, Christianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass.
0:22.6	It's a little bit of a heavier book maybe than, well, I don't really know that it was heavy.
0:27.8	It was just maybe it had a little bit of an academic feel to it because she's a sociologist and a researcher
0:36.8	and she just breaks down, you know, the
0:41.7	direction of Christian, of, you know, the history of Christianity and the direction it's kind
0:46.6	of taken in the last couple hundred years.
0:48.5	She talks about the last three awakenings that took place in history, and then she talks
0:53.6	about a fourth awakening that
0:55.6	has been in the process of happening over the last few decades and what that looks like today.
1:01.6	And so anyway, I thought it was an important, an important discussion to have. And so we read the
1:06.4	book and we had our second discussion last night. And one of the things, the main, we didn't even really get into talking that much about
1:15.6	the last half of the book because we ended up having a very animated discussion around the
1:21.4	idea of belonging.
1:25.5	So how Diana Butler Bass describes it is, she said the traditional model of religious
1:31.5	commitment is that first people believe, like I choose to believe in these tenants, whatever
1:38.2	denomination you're part of. I choose to believe this about Jesus. I choose to believe this about
1:42.8	the virgin birth. I choose to believe this about wearing panty hose at church. I choose to believe this about Jesus. I choose to believe this about the virgin birth. I choose to believe this about
1:44.6	wearing panty hose at church. I choose to believe this about wearing a head dressing or a head
1:50.4	covering. I choose to believe this about divorce. These are the beliefs. We have first we believe
1:55.7	and then out of our beliefs, if we were going to use the model tool, we'd say, these are our, this is our programming.
2:02.6	Out of what we choose to program ourselves with, then we then comes our behavior, right?
2:07.6	Those beliefs make us feel a certain way and then we show up in our lives a certain way.
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