Let's Keep Talking with Braxton Gilbert

After years of untaming myself from religion, I began to see some of the helpful aspects to religion. Like organization, and a clear hand-me-down set of values. A clear code of conduct, even.  I didn't return to the traditional religion I left, but I began to construct my own. And it has been so helpful. In my mind, this is the only way.  We talk about why you have to be close minded, too. Wh...

Is your bias towards positive emotion keeping you down? Numbing/hardening feels great when it's a painful time, but when the good moments return you're.. numb and hard.. and that is NO WAY to live life. What's the answer to being able to go through these changing seasons? Answer: go through them. Begin to define strength as the ability to maintain an open heart and sensitivity towar...

In this episode, I sit down with an amazing friend of mine, Blaze. We talk a lot about replacing religious rules with personal values, and very personal topics of emotional development. We discuss sexual development within a religious culture, and emotional development around people who are not emotionally developed. There is lots to learn for us all! If you are in a hurry.. Here is the breakdown!...

Growing up I was always taught that my guiding light was outside of myself. That my internal voice was not one to be trusted. Even worse, it was wayward, wicked, and deceitful. I was taught to look to pastors, teachers and older men to find out how I SHOULD be.  Carrying around the SHOULDs of other people eventually started to feel more like a hinderance than a honorable burden.  It was through me...