Help! I’ve Been Rejected by People I Thought I Could Trust! [339]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

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

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever crawled your way out of an emotionally abusive relationship, finally free, only to be met with cold shoulders, Christian cliques, and confused stares from the very people who should’ve been first in line at your welcome-back party?

Or maybe you’ve thought about getting out, but your instincts all tell you that you’ll lose everyone you love in the process?

In this episode, I answer two listener-submitted questions that go straight to the heart of what so many Christian women wrestle with post-abuse: rejection from family, exclusion in church, and the confusion that comes with trying to be a decent human in the aftermath of emotional trauma.

We talk:

The underbelly of emotional immaturity
Spiritual bypassing in religious circles
What “grace” actually looks like (hint: it’s not begging for scraps)
And why your healing is not up for debate

This one’s for every woman who’s been ghosted by her family or made to feel like a spiritual pariah in the church lobby.

Read the full show notes and/or ask Natalie a question here

Related Resources:

Get a free chapter of my book, “Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage” and companion workbook when you hop on my mailing list.
Listen to some related Flying Free Podcast episodes, including “Why Being Rejected by Your Church and Family Hurts So Bad” and “When You’ve Been Hurt by Church.”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free Podcast,
0:08.9	a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:19.0	Welcome to episode 339 of the Flying Free Podcast.
0:24.8	Today we're going to take questions from listeners.
0:27.4	And if you are a listener and you would like to ask a question that I might be able to answer here on the Flying Free podcast, go ahead and head over to my website.
0:37.3	It's Flying Free Now.com. That's my website,
0:40.6	but if you go to flyingfree now.com forward slash 339, and if you scroll down on that page,
0:48.8	you will see a place where you can just click a button and record a quick message to me.
0:53.5	Now, I'm not able to answer every
0:55.2	question, but if it's a question that I haven't covered before here on the podcast, or if it's a
1:00.6	question that's relevant to our audience, then I will potentially answer it. Now, I do record
1:06.4	two to three months in advance, so if you ask a question, I wouldn't look for your answer or for your
1:11.9	question to be answered right away. If you have questions that you would like answered in real
1:17.5	time, well, I answer questions every single day in my community forum, the kaleidoscope. And you can
1:25.7	ask as many questions as you want every single day.
1:31.3	All members have access to me. That is not usual. Many programs that are similar to mine,
1:37.9	the founder is not in the forum answering questions every single day. But this is my full-time job and I love it. I love helping
1:48.5	women. So definitely join if you think that you would like to have more daily support. The cost to be a
1:56.9	member is less than a dollar a day. And you can learn more about the courses that I teach,
2:02.6	the workshops, the coaching, the Q&A's that you're going to have access to and all of this
2:08.2	daily support if you go to join FlyingFree.com. It doesn't sound like, you know, like you might be
2:13.6	thinking for $29 a month, that doesn't, it seems like that's too good to be true.
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