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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

043: Finding Hope and Healing in our Scars with Dr. Diane Langberg Mar 25, 2025

How can the Church transform from a place of harm to a sanctuary of healing and truth? How do we learn to recognize the wolves among the sheep when it's hard to tell the difference? How can anyone hol...

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041: Ordinary Women of Faith and Ministry with Beth Allison Barr Mar 11, 2025

What if the church has been telling women the wrong story about their spiritual gifts for centuries? Historian and author Beth Allison Barr and I dive deep into the forgotten narratives of women's min...

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023: Meet the Board: Becoming Aware of Our Belovedness with Brett Deal Nov 12, 2024

CW/TW: This episode includes references to some child physical abuse and to overtly Christian language.

 

How does our story and theology impact our identity? How do the stories we tell ourselves or...

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022: Creating and Validating a Spiritual Abuse Assessment with Lianna Chong Nov 05, 2024

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...

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015: Healing What's Within through Curiosity and Connection with Chuck DeGroat Sep 24, 2024

Trauma fundamentally disconnects us.

It can disconnect our brains from our bodies. It can sever relationships and entire communities. Those of us familiar with trauma know it can have a real impact o...

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014: Meet the Board: Healing and Hope after Spiritual Abuse with Kat Wilkins Sep 17, 2024

In this short series, you’ll get to meet each of our board members.

Listen to their stories and backgrounds, and why they chose to serve on the board and support the work at Broken to Beloved.

This ...

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011: Conference Invitation for Pastors and Church Leaders Sep 05, 2024

Being a pastor or leader in ministry can feel like an impossible job at times.

The job includes not just spiritual direction and discipleship, but management, finances, counseling, and lots more.  As...

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