Liberate Your Story Podcast

Gender is something we do...all of us. We perform our gender in many ways and sometimes we make bargains with the system at play. This is called Patriarchal Bargaining. In my gender sociology studies at Arizona State University, I was given the opportunity to create something informative based on our course learnings.  I chose something that gave name to something many of us experience. I chose to...

Freeing our femininity becomes a work of self-love and self-care. But it is also a work of liberation. Join the community for a conversation about liberation and spiritual deconstruction. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Join Here. Available now: Unfuck Your nd Deconstruction Deck and Community Group. Find out more here. About your host: Jessicah is a Life Coach helping women liberate their...

Are you a victim of your beliefs or a creator of them?  And how do we all experience the same world differently? We take in the same information and expect that we will all have the same conclusion or belief...but we don't. How can we feel so far apart on issues that seem so easy, so obvious?  And how can we live in the same house and still have differing views on life? Your experience of the worl...

Submission was the teaching/mandate/calling we got in Purity Culture AFTER the alter.  I'm not holding back on this one because my experience in the evangelical church was truly vile.  AND...even if yours wasn't, you may have held some level of this oppressive belief. I absolutely hate what this belief has done to both women and men. And I was responsible for perpetuating its hurtful agenda. I’d l...

I was a teen in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I was a committed member of Purity Culture. I could have been a poster child for the movement if there had been one other than Joshua Harris. Purity Culture suited me in more ways than I understood back then. It was safe and actionable. It had outcomes and it felt really good to be good. Here’s the thing though.  I have spent over 27 years recoveri...

Who are you allowed to be? We have predetermined influences throughout our lives that embed, or hardwire, ideology into our social and coping skills. We learn who we are allowed to be without engaging in the experience of rejection. We learn morally through faith systems (culture and beliefs) what is acceptable to remain “in” or “holy”. These are powerful forces in our minds, aren’t they?  But wha...

I’m going to challenge you in this episode to unravel a very powerful word in the religious world that most likely will have created strategies for how you live or lived your life. This word is Sovereign. I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel stuck or even oppressed.  So leave me a voicemail at  608-55-STORY. I want to hear from you! Jessica...

Obedience. So how did this word get into our marriages? Or our context of spirituality? And why does this word feel like a threat or a weapon used toward women? I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel stuck or even oppressed.  So leave me a voicemail at  608-55-STORY. I want to hear from you! Jessicah is a Life Coach helping women liberate the...

Sometimes I wondered if this was the 11th commandment in the Bible.  The one specifically made for women.  I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel stuck or even oppressed.  So leave me a voicemail at  608-55-STORY. I want to hear from you! Jessicah is a Life Coach helping women liberate their stories so they are free to live the fullest life t...

If all of my value, my worth, and my identity were in someone else, then there was no value in being me. It was a devastating realization. It was a realization that put me on the floor like a thud. I didn’t get there overnight, but at the moment when I allowed the internal conflict to speak up, then that moment was a thud heard throughout my entire being. How are our identities formed, do we have...

You see a story on TV or through your social media feed about someone who did something (or didn’t do something) that makes you say to yourself (or if you’re like me, you say it out loud) “What were they thinking?!” "How did they think THAT was ok?" "Where did the common sense go?". Feel familiar? Let's talk about it! I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that...

Shifting our beliefs is a really brave thing we do. Many Exvangelicals are doing this at a great cost to their identities, relationships, and careers. So what are they doing and why? And what is happening inside of us when we change what we believe? Let's talk about it! I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel stuck or even oppressed.  So leave...

Freedom. THIS WORD…oh my goodness. To question its meaning as an American, is quite, well, almost unAmerican.  It is the highest tenant of our citizenship.  It is the very thing our men and women go to war over. It is the essence of who we are and how we live.  But does it bring you conflict to consider what it looks like in everyday real life?  It does me.  So I decided we should talk about it. I...

How powerful are your belief systems? How aware are you of how your belief systems affect your daily life? Knowing where they sit in your conscious and subconscious may change how what beliefs you choose to have. I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel stuck or even oppressed.  So leave me a voicemail at  608-55-STORY. I want to hear from you!...

I lived a small story for far too long. A story full of expectations of how I was to conduct myself, how I was to look, how I was to speak, and even what I could desire. I say this is a small story because stories written by others for us to live out are always small. There is no power in the universe comparable to a story that has been liberated from narratives that are meant to define us, define...

Language is very powerful. It has been used to communicate, instruct, teach, tell stories, and connect with each other. It can also be used to control.  What about "insider" language that carries meanings that aren't understood out of its culture or belief system? Let's dive in to find out how this affects the story we are living today. I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practice...

Liberate Your Story is a new weekly podcast hosted by Life Coach, Jessicah Travis, to unravel the language, beliefs, and mindsets that keep women feeling small. Let's free ourselves from oppressive religious programming, practices, and culture. Find out where IT ends and YOU begin! LIBERATE YOUR STORY! I’d love to unravel the language, identities, terms, practices, and beliefs that make you feel s...