Inner Light Companion podcast
The Inner Light Companion is a soul-nourishing podcast for those healing from religious trauma, emotional burnout, or spiritual disconnection. Hosted by Tamara Ridge, a therapist turned spiritual guide, each episode offers gentle reflections, guided meditations, and tools to help you reconnect with your inner light and Divine truth. Come as you are—this is a space for quiet healing, sacred storytelling, and deep belonging.
Podcasting since 2025 • 19 episodes
Inner Light Companion podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 19 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #10 - Freedom from Manipulation & Coercion: Seeing the Invisible Patterns That Shape Your Spiritual Life
Manipulation inside high‑control religion rarely looks like manipulation while you’re inside it. It looks like love. It looks like protection. It looks like “spiritual guidance.” And for many of us, it becomes the emotional atmosphere we...
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Episode 19
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Ep. 18 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #9 - Freedom of Religious Practice: The Wound of Temple Exclusion & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Path
In this episode, Tamara explores one of the most painful but least acknowledged wounds in high‑control religion: the loss of belonging when the Church decides you aren’t “worthy” to enter the temple.From standing outside a loved o...
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Episode 18
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Ep. 17 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #8 - Financial Freedom After Religious Control: Healing the Scarcity Wound
In today’s episode, we’re unpacking one of the most painful and unspoken legacies of high‑control religion: financial fear that lives in the body.For many of us, money was never neutral. It became fused with spiritual worthiness, ...
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Ep.16 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #7 - Freedom in Daily Life Decisions: How Survival Mode Quietly Controls Your Choices
For 59 years, I thought I was making my own choices — what to wear, what to eat, when to rest, how to give, how to spend my time. But a few weeks ago, my body revealed the truth: I wasn’t choosing.My dysregulated nervous system was.<...
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Ep. 15 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #6 - Freedom of Information & Access: When Forbidden Knowledge Breaks Everything Open
What does it cost when you're forbidden from seeing, reading, or knowing anything outside of the authorized script?In this episode, I share three devastating moments of information control that shattered my trust in church leadership:
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Episode 15
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