The Divorcing Religion Podcast
The Divorcing Religion Podcast was launched by professional counsellor Janice Selbie to highlight the impact of Religious Trauma Syndrome. Guests include The Thinking Atheist Seth Andrews, The Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta, author Margaret Atwood, Godless Mom, Mandisa Thomas, Dr. Darrel Ray, Dr. Marlene Winell and more.
Episodes
172 episodes
Sex & Power: Katherine Spearing - Healing After Spiritual Abuse
Katherine Spearing has spent years listening to the stories most churches would rather stay silent about. As the founder of Tears of Eden, she works directly with survivors of spiritual abuse, helping people untangle trauma, reclaim autonomy, a...
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Episode 157
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56:43
Melissa Duge Spiers - HOLY DISOBEDIENCE: GOOD GIRL GONE WILD
FIND JANICE:Janice Selbie's best-selling book, Divorcing Religion: A Memoir and Survival Handbook, is available here: https://amzn.to/4mnDxuoReligious Trauma Survivor Support Groups happen online Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5pm Pa...
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Episode 156
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Sex & Power: Chris Tompkins - The Truth About Shame: Chris Tompkins on Love, Liberation, and LGBTQ Resilience
Sex & Power: Chris Tompkins - The Truth About Shame: Chris Tompkins on Love, Liberation, and LGBTQ ResilienceChris Tompkins is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who specializes in working with adult gay men. He is also the a...
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Episode 155
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Sex & Power: Clara Ritger - When Success is Killing You: Clara Ritger on Meditation, Mortality, and Meaning
Clara Ritger spent her 20s building a successful media career — producing for U.S. national media such as NBC, WSJ, and TLC — while secretly battling chronic illness and burnout. A ruptured appendix, major abdominal surgery, and skin cancer for...
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Episode 154
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56:44
The Sex & Power Podcast: Truth-telling that liberates with Mike Steve Collins
The Sex & Power Podcast: Truth-telling that liberates with Mike Steve Collins: The Anti-Civil Rights MovementMike Collins is the author of The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon (University Press of K...
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Episode 153
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S&P Podcast: Detra Denise - Ashes and Embers: How Detra Denise Turned Pain into Power PART 2
Detra Denise - Ashes and Embers: How Detra Denise Turned Pain into Power PART 2In this episode, Detra shares what it was like to go from obscurity to fame after being featured in a 15-part series in the Humans of New York. She als...
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Episode 152
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57:33
S&P Podcast: Detra Denise - Ashes and Embers: How Detra Denise Turned Pain into Power PART 1
Detra Denise - Ashes and Embers: How Detra Denise Turned Pain into Power PART 1 Content Warning: CSA, suicidality, familial estrangementMy guest today is Detra Denise, a former pastor's wife who dared to change her lif...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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S&P Podcast: Kiki Negress - The Uppity Negress
This week on the Sex & Power Podcast, I'll be speaking with Kiki Negress, The Uppity Negress.Kiki Bryant is known across platforms as the Uppity Negress: a brilliant, incisive voice on race, feminism, religion, and culture. She is al...
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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Jennie Gage - Life, Take Two!
Jennie Gage - Life, Take Two!Divorced: MormonismTW: Suicide attemptJennie Gage is a writer, creator, and former Christian nationalist and Mormon trad wifey turned outspoken advocate for justice, compassion, an...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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Melody Post - House of Yahweh Cult
Melody Post - House of Yahweh CultDivorced: ChristianityCW: Mention of suicide and traffickingMelody Post was a member of the House of Yahweh Cult from 1989 to 1994. At age 18, she was married to the cult leader's son and gav...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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Elyse Bouvier - Unfolding Faith Film
Elyse Bouvier - Unfolding Faith FilmDivorced: ChristianityToday, Canadian filmmaker Elyse Bouvier joins me to talk about her journey out of Christianity, and how it became the topic of her film Unfolding Faith, which will...
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Season 1
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Episode 148
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56:53
Dr. Pavna K. Sodhi (Part2) - Navigating Internalized Racism in 3rd-Generation Punjabi-Sikh Immigrants
Dr. Pavna K. Sodhi (Part2) - Navigating Internalized Racism in 3rd-Generation Punjabi-Sikh ImmigrantsWelcome to Part 2 of my interview with Dr. Pavna K. Sodhi. Dr. Sodhi joins me again to share her knowledge about Punjabi-Sikh ...
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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57:14
Dr. Sarah Farrell - Shattering Into a Whole
Dr. Sarah Farrell - Shattering Into a WholeDivorced: Christian Fundamentalism Sarah M. Farrell, PhD, MSW, LICSW is a researcher, academic, and clinical social worker (who sometimes fancies herself a stand-up comedian). She ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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58:27
Lacey Bond - From Bible Study to Sex Ed, Part 2
Lacey Bond - From Bible Study to Sex Ed, Part 2Divorced: ChristianityCW: Frank discussion about sexLacey Bond (IntimacyLacey) is a Certified Sex, Relationship, and Intimacy Coach and sex/kink educator based in...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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Timmy Joe Gibson - Former Tongue Talkin, Holy Rollin, Bible Thumper
Timmy Joe Gibson - Former Tongue Talkin, Holy Rollin, Bible ThumperDivorced: ChristianityTimmy Gibson, is a former fundamental evangelical Bible thumping tongue-talking Holy Ghost Rollin Pastor. After graduating Bible College, Tim...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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58:38
Lacey Bond - From Bible Study to Sex Ed, Part 1
Lacey Bond - From Bible Study to Sex Ed, Part 1Divorced: ChristianityCW: Frank discussion about sexLacey Bond (IntimacyLacey) is a Certified Sex, Relationship, and Intimacy Coach and sex/kink educator based in Los An...
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Episode 144
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David Hayward - The Naked Pastor, Revealed
David Hayward - The Naked Pastor, RevealedDivorced: ChristianityMy guest today is known by many of you for his powerful cartoons and paintings related to deconstruction from Christianity. I’m speaking with my fellow Canadian, Davi...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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51:28
Pamela Jones - Escaping a Deadly Polygamous Cult
Pamela Jones - Escaping a Deadly Polygamous CultDIVORCED: FLDS Cults TW: Brief mention of CSA and child abuse in this episodeIn 1965, PAMELA JONES was born in Los Molinos, Mexico, into a polygamous Mormon cult known as...
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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Tara Jean Stevens - Heaven Bent
Tara Jean Stevens - Heaven BentDivorced: PentecostalismCW: Sexuality discussedToday I’m speaking with fellow Canadian Tara Jean (TJ) Stevens, the host and creator of Heaven Bent, a podcast docuseries with a special focus on...
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Season 1
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Episode 141
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Karrah Youngblood - Exposing A Predator: Wildfire
Karrah Youngblood - Exposing A Predator: WildfireTW: Violence and sexual assaultKarrah Youngblood is a professional artist, single mom, and unexpected memoirist from Oklahoma. She never planned to be an activist, but standing up t...
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Season 1
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Episode 140
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52:53
Pamela Nickel Williams - Scientology: When Lies Are True
Pamela Nickel Williams - Scientology: When Lies Are TrueDIVORCED: ScientologyTW: Incest Pamela Nickel Williams was born into Scientology. Her parents were early Scientologists who worked closely with L. Ron Hubb...
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Season 1
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Episode 139
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Allie Monday - Erotic Photographer & Worshiper of Women
Allie Monday - Erotic Photographer & Worshiper of WomenDIVORCED: FundamentalismTW: Eating disorder mentioned briefly My guest today was one of our sponsors for Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture 2025. A...
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Season 1
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Episode 138
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Cynane Shay - Tinfoil Hats and Lizard People PART TWO
Cynane Shay - Tinfoil Hats and Lizard People PART TWODIVORCED: ChristianityTW: Antisemitism, violence, and satanism are all mentioned in this episode.Today, nuclear engineer and writer Cynane Shay joins me for Part 2 of our...
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Season 1
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Episode 137
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Cynane Shay - Tinfoil Hats & Lizard People PART ONE
Cynane Shay - Tinfoil Hats & Lizard People PART ONEDIVORCED: ChristianityCynane Shay is a nuclear engineer living in South Carolina. Her childhood in White Christian Nationalism normalized conspiracy theories like Obama Birtheris...
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Season 1
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Episode 136
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