Deconstruct To Curiocity

Tara Teng is an Embodiment Coach who works in the intersections of spirituality and sexuality. She helps people find their way back to their bodies, overcome shame, and dismantle purity culture in a way that is in alignment with their values and beliefs so that they can build a healthy, sexual ethic and thrive in freedom and wholeness. https://linktr.ee/misstarateng @misstarateng @laurendeleary @o...

Yeamah Logan is a Queer woman of African descent who identifies as Christian. She helps LGBTQ+ Christians make peace with their sexuality and faith. She is passionate about reuniting the queer community with a God who loves, accepts and affirms them. She was baptized in the seventh Day Adventist tradition and ended up in a charismatic non-denominational, hyper-grace Bible college with a masters in...

Hannah Moon is an intuitive coach focused on helping those with a religious upbringing to deconstruct their own ideas, beliefs, and fears to live an authentic and joy-filled life. She is an inter-faith, inter-spirituality coach who believes there is truth weaving through all cultures and practices guiding us to love, inner divinity, and wholeness.  Hannah began her own deconstruction journey after...

Dr. Laura Anderson is a Psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma focusing on sexualized violence, domestic violence and religious trauma. She is Co-founder of the Religious Trauma Institute and founder of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery which is an online coaching practice with all of their practitioners specializing in working with people who have experienced religious trauma,...

Andrew Kerbs aka deconstruct everything on Instagram grew up as a Seventh-day Adventist in the Bible Belt. He is currently a licensed therapist and writer. He is most passionate about helping people deconstruct harmful religion and learn to live a life that is meaningful to them. @deconstruct_everything @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost @deconstruct.pod @traumaresolutionandrecovery

Anjelah and Manny host a podcast along with their friend Brandon called nights at the roundtable where they talk about faith, love, life, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of all of those ideals. Anjelah is an actress and a comedian Manny is a music artist (used to be in the Christian music industry ) and they have been married for 10 years. @anjelahjohnson @manwellreyes @nightsattheroundt...

Liz Milani is Co-Owner and author at The Practice Co. Creating space for holistic and embodied spirituality. Liz writes daily devotions through a faith lens to lead people to their truest self. https://www.thepracticeco.com @thepracticeco @liz.milani @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost

Jonathan Merritt is one of America’s most popular writers on issues of faith and culture. He is author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them, named “Book of the Year” by the Englewood Review of Books. Jonathan is an award-winning contributor for The Atlantic, a contributing editor for The Wee...

Lauren and Adam here. Today, we decided to put our sassy pants on and talk all things meme culture, tik tok and dishing out our best hot takes. Enjoy. @deconstruct.pod @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost

Erica Smith is a sexuality educator with over 20 years of experience in the field. She's known for her signature Purity Culture Dropout Program, developed in 2019 to teach folks recovering from purity culture all of the accurate, comprehensive, queer inclusive, trauma informed sex ed that they missed. Previously she worked with young women and LGBTQ+ youth in the juvenile justice system and in HIV...

SUSAN COTTRELL is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.5 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out, and as a contributor on the Our Bi...

Josh and Adrian are former evangelical worship leaders, pastors, church planters who started Dirty Rotten Church Kids Podcast as a means to process life on the other side of the evangelical bubble. Equal parts heavy and light, the duo unpack their stories, interview incredible guests and hear from their listeners the Bad Apples with the hope that "it's all gonna be okay". @dirtyrottenchurchkids @d...

Spilling the tea. Catching up. What’s been going through our minds lately. HE GOD SHE GOD THEY GOD NO GOD. listen to the episode to hear where that comes from.

Nikki Mayeux is a queer ex-Evangelical writer and educator from the strangest city in the Deep South, New Orleans. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans and works in special education advocacy. She also performs public storytelling and produces SANCTUARY, a performance series uplifting stories of religious trauma and deconstruction. Her work has been featured i...

Brenda Davies is the Author of On Her Knees & creator of God is Grey, where she advocates for sex positive, lgbtq+ affirming, science-believing faith. In this episode - we talk about women and MONEY.

Will Thorpe, aka, Heretical Theology describes himself as a humanist, heretic, apostate, and atheist. Although he spent 20 years identifying as a Christian previously and even fundamentalist 15 of those years. Through his online community, he helps those who are deconstructing in Christianity. He believes that theology without history is just fantasy. And Because of that - his main objective is to...

Grace Baldridge aka Semler is a queer recording artist. She’s just beginning but that doesn’t mean much. Because this gal jumped straight to the top of Apple Music #1 in Christian music. This is the first time an openly queer person has even been charting in christian music. And we get into alllll that. Enjoy. And go stream “Preachers Kid”. https://linktr.ee/gracesemlerbaldridge @gracebaldridge @l...

Your favorite heretics, aka Rachel & Derek are a wife & husband duo creating a safe space for deconstruction and recovery from church trauma. They are passionate about advocating for spirutual agency and freedom. They are deconstructed evangelicals. Derek has a biblical studies background & rachel is pursuing a masters in religious studies. Your Favorite heretics was born out of a desire to bring...

Blair aka, Talk Purity To Me is a fellow ex-evangelical purity culture survivor. She is committed to unlearning the shame that purity culture taught us. Between her words of wisdom, hilarious memes and on point tik tok - Blair provides humor & healing to thousands of us who are ready to say goodbye to shame. @talkpuritytome @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost https://linktr.ee/talkpuritytome

Kevin Garcia is a digital pastor, creative mystic, public theologian and intuitive soul coach based in Atlanta, GA. After coming out in the fall of 2015 as a queer Christian, Kevin has reached thousands of individuals across the globe with messages of God’s unending love for all people. regardless of who they are, what they profess, or what they actually believe. Kevin’s the author of Bad Theology...

What to expect: Is... “Everything is a miracle or nothing is”, true? Adam may be the most enlightened non-spiritual person you know. Am I an atheist? You can lose your religion, but can you really lose your faith? Is consciousness the same as spirituality? @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost

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Phil Drysdale is a PK (pastor’s kid) who had spent his whole life in the church in various capacities including church leader, "pastoring" a thousand church leaders in a global church network and travelling around the world and speaking in over a thousand churches, conferences & colleges about faith. Now, over the last 8 years, he has helped thousands of people around the world who are deconstruct...

Today we reflect on the year 2020 - what we gained & what we lost. We also talk about productivity & loneliness. As we wrap up the year, it may be hard to find the positives or even admit some of the good things that may have happened to or for us this year... We almost may feel guilty because this year, overall, was a very very hard year. We recognize that. But this is a safe space for all. And i...

Look, Christmas comes with its own set of issues. But then you are going through deconstruction AND a pandemic. And quite honestly - it becomes VERY confusing emotionally. We are here to talk about it all.