
The Broken to Beloved Podcast is for anyone who’s been affected by spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or church hurt and is looking for practical resources to move toward healing and wholeness.
I’m your host, Brian Lee, and I’m so excited to share these conversations with you.
I want this to be a place for deep and meaningful conversations around spiritual abuse and religious trauma. I want to provide you with language to name your experiences and validate your stories, and to give you practical tools that move you toward healing and wholeness.
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Recent Episodes & Show Notes
This the second episode in a short series on our values. You can listen to our first shared value, "Curiosity over Certainty" in Episode 20 here.
By choosing goodness over wickedness, we affirm the o...
CW/TW: This episode includes references to some child physical abuse and to overtly Christian language.
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How does our story and theology impact our identity? How do the stories we tell ourselves or...
Can you really ever know when you’ve experienced spiritual abuse by church leaders and organizations? Victims and survivors are so often manipulated and gaslit that they question their own memories an...
Deconstruction has become a polarized term in the past few years. Added to the arsenal of pastors and church leaders, it’s most often used to to dismiss or demean those who have walked away from their...
Here’s the first in a short series on our core values. They’re a work in progress, but I want to share them so you have an idea of our guiding principles.
This week, I’m starting with our desire to s...
Broken to Beloved is officially one year old!
This week, I’m taking a few minutes to reflect on what we’ve seen in the last year, and to provide a brief update on the podcast.
I can’t begin to tell ...
If you grew up in church in the 90s and through the 2000s, it’s highly likely you were brought up in purity culture. If you’re here, it’s likely you’ve found yourself deconstructing and disentangling ...
Surprise! We have a little bonus episode to share from the personal experiences of a few cohort alumni.
If you’ve experienced spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or church hurt/harm and are looking for ...
How many of us know someone who talk about holiness and righteousness, then in the same breath can be found cursing out their opposing political party or candidate?
For many of us, the disconnect of ...