
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. Â As...