Emancipate Your Mind: 053: Religion and Identity with Alicia T. Crosby

“Religion has the ability to impact which identities you hold onto, which identities you deny, and even what identities you think are possible and are valid”. “At its best, religious culture can be beautiful grounds for human flourishing, but at its worst it can be incredibly suppressive.” In this episode, public speaker, writer, and ordained… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 053: Religion and Identity with Alicia T. Crosby

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“Religion has the ability to impact which identities you hold onto, which identities you deny, and even what identities you think are possible and are valid”.

“At its best, religious culture can be beautiful grounds for human flourishing, but at its worst it can be incredibly suppressive.”

In this episode, public speaker, writer, and ordained minister, Alicia T. Crosby speaks about her experience growing up as a Black Baptist minister’s daughter, grappling with her identity as a queer person, and her own process of recognizing, deconstructing, and healing religious violence for herself and her efforts to create social justice for other groups marginalized by religion in the world.

She speaks about religious violence against POC that comes from white supremacy embedded in Western Christianity and how doing our own work with shame resilience can help us tolerate the discomfort necessary to confront these subconscious beliefs and biases and allow ourselves to grow into a new way of believing and behaving.

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WANT MORE OF ALICIA’S WORK?

Visit her at her website:

aliciatcrosby.com

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If you’d like to be part of an online community where we take the podcast topics and pull them apart for discussion and further learning, talk about all the religious transition things, and just enjoy each other’s company, join my free “Emancipate Yourself” Facebook group at this link:

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If you’d like more step-by-step assistance learning to feel safe in your body, reconnect with your emotions, and use that emotional connection to begin to reestablish a healthy sense of self,  check out the Emancipate Yourself App on Google Play in the Apple App Store.

Or if you want to follow me for religious and psychological insights, commentary on events in the world, links to other people doing great work related to religion, and little windows into my real life, follow me on Instagram or Reddit @EmancipatedMolly , TikTok @EmancipatedTeri , or Twitter @EmancipatedTeri.

If you have a question or want to talk about further coaching support, please email me at [email protected]

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