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MONDAY MELTDOWN: Why Are We Protesting Social Distancing?: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 21, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsHave you seen these protests against social distancing? Signs that read, “Social Distancing is Communism.” Is this real life? What are we doing? How can we help one another? Can we get better? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It's time for change. WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Co...
Sports? Where Are You?
3 Up, 3 Down with Troy Banning - April 17, 2020 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the 84th installment of the 3 Up, 3 Down Podcast, hosts Troy Banning and Ross Thede attempt to fill the sports void due to COVID-19. Prep sports - will they or won't they - are discussed, as are their favorite memories of events they've covered. They also look ahead to next season's Iowa bask...
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Know When You’re Healing: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 16, 2020 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Growth is seen when we’re simultaneously angered by someone’s actions while also being able to look within with curiosity to see why were angered. What do you thi...
BEST OF! Life is Weird, Love is Weird, It’s Hard, We Can Change!: Nave
Losing Our Religion - April 15, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsA lesbian with a heart of gold that loves humans and prays? Nave, raised in a commune, with a traumatic past that she scarcely remembers. Through it all, she continues to find healing and kick life in the ass. She’s a genuinely fantastic human with a heart of tough gold. You will be inspired a...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Some Days We Need to Pull Back and Cry. Other Days We Need to Press Harder While We Cry: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 14, 2020 14:44 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsHealing isn't easy. Growing, changing, transforming all things we want. Well, some of us want. It's not easy. Some days we just need to pull back and cry, other days we need to press through while we cry. Only you know the difference. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It'...
THINKING THURSDAY: Indoctrinated Parenting Vs. Liberated Parenting: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 09, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. How to parent my kids while deconstructing and deconverting. One of the most common questions I receive is, "How do I parent my kids after leaving religion?" De...
EPISODE 227: Tend to Your Own Garden. How to Take Care of Yourself: Lily VonTrapp
Losing Our Religion - April 08, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsLily VonTrapp, science by day, boudoir model and burlesque by night. How to Take Care of Yourself: Continuing our conversation from last week about adult dating. We get down to the root of it all. Tending to our own garden. How are we tending to our own needs and healing so that we can even be...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Why are Religious Services Being Exempt from Quarantine?: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 07, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsWe chat about a satirical article that has real news behind it. Some southern governors in America have exempted religious services from their shelter-in-place orders, arguing that COVID-19 won’t harm Christians. When we all just realize that there is only one team we’re all on no matter what we...
THINKING THURSDAY: Let’s Talk About Tiger King: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - April 02, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. I’m not kidding when I say the Tiger King documentary on Netflix was triggering. Not in a religious PTSD way, but in a way that reminded me of how cults operate. ...
EPISODE 226: Adult Dating is Like Going to the Dump: Lily VonTrapp
Losing Our Religion - April 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsLily VonTrapp is back. In the science world by day and the burlesque world by night. From performance art to modeling, to parenthood, and her love of humans she is a wonderful soul to be in touch with. We deep dive into our relationship cycles and insecurities and come out laughing. MENTIONED I...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Things We May Be Grieving at the Moment: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 31, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsIf you’re being extra hard on yourself during this period of uncertainty, I hope you show yourself compassion and kindness. Grief is tough because you can’t force it. Grief processes on its own timeframe. The only productive way to heal grief is to focus on the basics of being present with it? ...
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Survive Quarantine with a Narcissist or Toxic People: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 26, 2020 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. We’re quarantined. Some of us are in better situations than others in this current reality. Here are some ways to help yourself and others survive during this tim...
EPISODE 225: Making Friends, Losing Friends, and Drinking A Lot: Amy Miller
Losing Our Religion - March 25, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsAmy Miller is hilariously endearing. Like most guests she has a religious past but with an interesting twist. We chat about love and relationships, friendships, and wonder how many of us ex-Christians have used alcohol for therapeutic and comic relief. Amy Miller, a comedian seen on Comedy Cen...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Ran Out of Toilet Paper and My Butt is Still Clean: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 24, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsDo we really need to be hoarding toilet paper? Are our butts that important or are we having zero-risk bias? While it's true that COVID-19 includes diarrhea amongst its symptoms, so does Taco Bell, and way more people get that every day. Why the sudden urgency? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The ...
THINKING THURSDAY: One Way We Can Thrive on the Coronavirus Pandemic Changes: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 19, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Healing our own pain and trauma that leads to anger is hard enough, but when someone is projecting theirs onto us in anger it’s tough to respond constructively. W...
EPISODE 224: Starting Your Entire Live Over: Jonathan Bowles
Losing Our Religion - March 18, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsJonathan is back and we’re taking a deep dive into our strange meditative experiences and how our Christian pasts have caused anxiety and fear into our new experiences. Jonathan is a fiery, former pastor, who’s been through the wringer and come out like a freight train full of…Just listen, you...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Jim Bakker, Snake Oil, Corona Virus, and Finding Peace: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 17, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThis is a crazy time, we’re all feeling it, f*ck the snake oil salespeople that would take advantage of us. Here’s some hilarious meltdown about it all with some encouraging words and daily help. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Televangelist Jim Bakker Sued Over Fake Coronavirus Treatment : NPR ...
Sports and the Coronavirus
3 Up, 3 Down with Troy Banning - March 16, 2020 05:52 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the 82nd installment of the 3 Up, 3 Down Podcast, hosts Troy Banning and Ross Thede discuss the latest in the sports landscape that has been decimated by COVID-19. Will there be prep sports in the spring? Are summer sports in jeopardy? Listen to hear their opinions, as well as a wrap-up on la...
THINKING THURSDAY: I Don't Want to Talk About Covid 19 Coronavirus but: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 12, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. The fear is real for many. I know we are hurting, let us do so in ways that heal and create spaces of comfort and peace for ourselves and others as we find our wa...
EPISODE 223: A Freight Train of Religious Trauma Healing and Encouraging Laughter: Jonathan Bowles
Losing Our Religion - March 11, 2020 07:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsJonathan is a firey, former pastor, who’s been through the wringer and come out like a freight train full of…Just listen, you’ll get it. He’s an entrepreneur, coach, existential wanderer, shamanic dreamer, encouragement monster and we share some wild rides and loads of laughter of how we’ve heal...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: How to Heal Anger and Grief from Time Lost in Religious and Childhood Trauma: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 10, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratings“I’m Angry and Grieving the Life I Wasted!” Fellow Loser and listener Natasha wrote in asking how to get rid of the anger and grief she is feeling the time religion and trauma has stolen from her. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming...
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Combat Enmeshment and Codependency: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 05, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Growing up religious many of us where taught enmeshment and codependency not an autonomous partnership in our relationships. The idea of “two becoming one” is tox...
EPISODE 222: COUGH IT OUT! Expelling Demons and Healing From Trauma: Katherine
Losing Our Religion - March 04, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsWe begin this episode down a rabbit hole of my mystic therapy weirdness and then thankfully, pivot into relationships, and then drinking and laughing hysterically about Katherine’s Christian past with YWAM (Youth With A Mission), "demon possession," and exorcism. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Ca...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: We Can’t Please Everyone, But We Should Listen if They’re Hurt: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - March 03, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsBeing you is hard enough, it’s even harder when being you somehow trigger's someone else. We can’t change how people perceive us, but when we hurt them unknowingly, no matter how they react, they deserve to be heard. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Trainin...
THINKING THURSDAY: Be Encouraged, You’re Not Alone in Your Healing: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - February 27, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. You are unique. Your struggles are not. We are universally bound to each other and face and deal with the same struggles. As we face our internal struggles we beg...
EPISODE 221: Self-Awareness, Traumatic Events, and Healing: Katherine
Losing Our Religion - February 26, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsWarning, this episode includes a story of a traumatic fatal accident. It’s not easy healing, let alone healing from something fatal. Katherine shares her story of healing and becoming. It’s honest, heartfelt, and helpful. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Tr...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Change is Hard, But So is Not Changing: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - February 25, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThere’s no way around it. Change is hard. Taking ownership of your life and self-care is hard. But life is hard anyways so you might at well engage your dreams and change! It's time to leave your abusive or toxic situations. If it's not serving you well anymore why continue engaging it? MENTION...
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - February 20, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. The things that trigger our traumas are the very things that point us to what to heal in our lives. Traumas form our lives and if we don’t heal them we don’t grow...
BEST OF THE PODCAST! A Daddy and His Little: Josh Black and Haven Yates
Losing Our Religion - February 20, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThis episode is a repeat of 153, but it had so many downloads we made it a “Best Of!” Josh Black and Haven Yates are completely enamored with one another in more ways than one. Clowns, BDSM, Polyamory, and Haven’s Borderline Personality Disorder make for a wild and beautiful story of helpful i...
MONDAY MELTDOWN: The Inward Work of Healing: Zac Gandara
Losing Our Religion - February 18, 2020 21:31 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsThe journey inward is hard at first. It’s counterintuitive and certainly countercultural. But after waking up to the realization of the layers of programming others have put on us we begin the journey of accepting ourselves, hearing ourselves, and healing ourselves. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: ...
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