A LISTENING SELECTION
Begin where you have room: language for what happened, accounts of institutional harm, or conversations about rebuilding agency. Some episodes discuss abuse and trauma; each resource page tells you more before you listen.
An episode can be a first meeting with a voice that feels like good company. If a show resonates, you may choose to keep listening beyond this selection. Each episode here has been chosen on its own merits; the wider show is yours to explore.
8 selected episodes
Podcast EpisodeHoly/Hurt with Hillary McBride
Hillary McBride introduces spiritual trauma through survivor accounts and a body-aware account of how harm can linger even after someone leaves an unsafe religious setting.
Podcast EpisodeBradley Onishi; Dan Miller
A therapist and former insider distinguish religious trauma from ordinary religious discomfort and connect harm to specific systems. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast EpisodeDr. Anita Phillips with Dr. Wade Mullen
Anita Phillips and Wade Mullen explain how faith communities can conceal harm, protect image, intimidate truth-tellers, and make victims doubt their perception, with careful first steps toward clarity.
Podcast EpisodeRussell Moore; Diane Langberg
Provides a continuity-preserving countervoice to institutional self-protection.
Podcast EpisodeFaith for Normal People with Candice Czubernat
Therapist Candice Czubernat discusses how religious environments can wound LGBTQ+ Christians and what affirming support and a different relationship with faith can make possible.
Podcast EpisodeThe Holly Pivec Podcast
Examines how claims to hear God can be used coercively and offers a countervoice to spiritual authority that discourages questioning.
Podcast EpisodeSheila Wray Gregoire; Tia Levings
Levings discusses recovery and reclaiming a sense of self after fundamentalist formation and an abusive marriage in conversation with Bare Marriage.
Podcast EpisodeEric Wells and Amaia Perez with Rebecca Williams, LMFT
Rebecca Williams offers practical ways to respond when religious friends or relatives pray for you, give religious gifts, invite you to services, preach, or involve children.