How My Word for 2026 is Playing Out So Far (personal message) [370]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This isn't my typical podcast episode. Today I get personal, sharing why I’ve decided to pursue graduate studies in theology after experiencing profound spiritual abuse throughout my entire life. If you've read All the Scary Little Gods, you know my story, and you might be wondering why I’d ever step back into that world.
I invite you into my journey of healing, my commitment to simplicity in 2026, and the real reason I keep this podcast free.
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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. |
| 0:17.1 | Hey, beautiful butterfly. I am not using my podcast mic today. I'm actually in my little office, |
| 0:25.7 | which is also my bedroom. I have kind of an office set up on one side of my bedroom and then my bed is on the other |
| 0:32.4 | side. And I'm doing today, well, I'm speaking into my phone, and I'm doing today what I do two or three times a week now, where I share some of my thoughts. |
| 0:46.4 | Sometimes I'll do a devotion. |
| 0:48.7 | Sometimes I'll share something that I'm learning in a book I'm reading or something else. Sometimes I will actually go into more |
| 0:57.5 | detail and teach maybe on a topic that's really snagging some women in the forum, in our kaleidoscope |
| 1:04.9 | forum. But I'm doing this two or three times a week in a private podcast for members of my private community, |
| 1:13.1 | flying free and members of my private community flying higher. And I'm going to give you a little |
| 1:19.8 | bit of a taste of that. I guess I think I've done this once before, but I will have someone |
| 1:27.2 | edit this or not edit, they'll just edit the sound. Hopefully they'll be able |
| 1:31.2 | to make it sound better. And I don't necessarily do that for the private podcast, but I will for you |
| 1:36.5 | guys. But what I want to talk with you about today, I want to be a little more personal. I have not |
| 1:41.8 | scripted anything out. I don't have any specific topic that I want |
| 1:46.0 | to talk on. I just want to talk about the work that we are doing together because, and I'm talking |
| 1:53.2 | about the work that we're doing together here on the public, Flying Free Podcast, my other public |
| 1:59.0 | podcast, which is called the Divorced Christian Woman podcast, as well as the work |
| 2:04.4 | that I'm doing behind the scenes. And I want to, you know, invite you into something deeper if you're |
| 2:08.9 | ready for that. So first I want to share some personal news that I started going back to graduate |
| 2:15.3 | school at the beginning of January to study theology. |
| 2:20.3 | And for some of you, that might sound surprising that I'm doing that, especially if you have |
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