What I'm Reading, Listening to, and Thinking About [278]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
I have been learning and reading and going to conferences and doing ALL the things recently, and I want to tell you all about it! This episode is a fun one where I let you in on what I’ve been up to and share a few golden nuggets I’ve found along the way.
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Related Resources:
- Book I’ve been reading recently: After by Dr. Bruce Greyson, It’s Not You by Dr. Ramani, and Still Life by Penny Louise.
- Check out my new favorite podcast, The BEMA Podcast.
- My newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming. I also made a playlist for this book on Spotify!
- Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote another book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
- Flying Free is my online membership program designed for Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip and support you through this program.
- Flying Higher is my online membership program for divorced Christian women. Come rebuild your life after divorce with women just like you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 278 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we are doing something totally different. I've never done this before, |
| 0:32.0 | but I woke up this morning thinking about all the amazing books I've read and podcasts I've listened to and experiences I've had this past month and I thought it would be fun to share some of the things |
| 0:44.1 | I've been learning and thinking about as a result of my exposure to these things. |
| 0:49.7 | So at the time of this recording it's the very end of March so these are things related to my experiences in March of 2024. |
| 0:59.0 | A theme I'm seeing play out over and over again in my life is the theme of love. |
| 1:06.0 | What it is, what it isn't, how to get it, how to give it, how powerful it is, and yet how elusive it feels sometimes. |
| 1:15.0 | An unstoppable love plays an important role in my own memoir, |
| 1:20.0 | all the scary little gods, |
| 1:22.0 | as I walk the reader through different experiences in my life |
| 1:26.0 | where I really didn't understand love, but I found myself passionately seeking and pursuing it from the time I was a small child. |
| 1:35.0 | And that really is the human quest, isn't it? |
| 1:39.0 | To find a place of rest in a great love that keeps us safely held? A book I recently finished was a |
| 1:48.1 | book I heard Peter Enns recommend on an Instagram reel called After. |
| 1:54.0 | The book is called After. |
| 1:56.0 | It's by Dr. Bruce Gresson, |
| 1:58.0 | the world's leading expert on near death experiences. |
| 2:02.0 | Now, I've seen other books about near death |
| 2:03.6 | experiences written from a Christian perspective, but honestly I've just never |
| 2:07.8 | felt compelled to read them because I knew they'd be biased and if people were |
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