G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-C-A-P-S-C-A-N-P its Girls Camp.

Hello friends and campers. Welcome back to Girls Camp and Happy Wednesday.

I'm your host, Haley Rawl and I'm not going to lie to you. That is the fifth time I've said that because I cannot seem to find the

words for the intro today. Usually I will only do one or two takes of this

little intro blurb before an interview episode but I'm struggling today and I'm

really hoping this is my last take. In today's episode you will hear me become best friends in real time with today's guest Abby Benson

Swallie. Abby is so phenomenal she's intelligent she's insightful she's funny

I found her on Tik-Tok through her faith deconstruction content

and we were able to connect through the app

and she agreed to come on the podcast.

I've had a lot of you,ers reach out and say that you listen to

girls camp because you have gone through a faith deconstruction or crisis or

transition of your own but not not from Mormonism, usually from another Christian

church.

And Abby grew up Southern Baptist, and then in her high school years she switched to a non-denominational church and then she switched to a non-denominational church and then she eventually deconstructed.

And I loved talking to her so much about the similarities and the differences in our experiences of

deconstruction since we come from different faith traditions and mostly I

was struck by the similarities and I found that really healing and really special that we could

find so much in common with what we've gone through even though we come from

different states with very different cultures and obviously from different religions and it made me feel connected to anybody

listening who shares the faith deconstruction thing but from a different religion.

So this episode is for you. We had a lot of fun.

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