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
What if the key to understanding your present lies buried in the stories of your past?
In this episode, IÂ talk with Adam Young about his new book Make Sense of Your Story and the transformative power...
What if pushing harder isn't the answer? Author and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber shares how the surprising path to healing often means doing the opposite of what we've been taught.
In our conversati...
In this episode, we dig into how most men never got a proper "sex talk"— just rules about staying pure and anatomical basics, without any guidance on how to handle feelings, desires, and attraction in...
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 ...
Most of us are familiar with fight, flight, and freeze. "Fawn"" may be a newer one for many of us. I first learned about the fawn response from Aundi’s incredible book, Try Softer. She describes it as...
What do you do when you’ve given your life to a cause and calling, to have only to find yourself walking away?
Steve Carter was named as one of two successors to Bill Hybels at Willow Creek Community...
"By giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy, you robbed it of its power." — Barbie
What does it take to break free from a life controlled by religious...
TW/CW:Â references to suicide and suicidal ideation
According to chaplain J.S. Park, people are ready for the conversation around grief and loss.
I feel like I’ve been swimming in the waters of grief...
