Seeking Health with Josiah & Anne Jisca Meyer
By Josiah Meyer
#abuse #psychology #christianity #narcissism #evangelicalism #currentevents
Seeking Health with Josiah & Anne Jisca MeyerDec 20, 2020
1. Update: Finding Friends and Faith After Church
7. Evangelicals, Politics, and the Freedom Convoy
18. An Active Jehovah's Witness Speaks out From the Inside, feat. Geoffrey Wallis
17. "I Survived Conversion Therapy," feat. Luke Wilson
Luke Wilson experienced conversion therapy while studying at Liberty University as an Evangelical youth. Now, he is part of a lawsuit against the US board of education for allowing conversion therapy and other discrimination against lgbtq persons to go on in schools that receive public funding.
16. Intersectional Humanism, feat Robert
Robert of Affinis Humanity joins us for a very informed discussion of how religion affects gender, sex, and race in America.
15. "I Was Raised in Evangelicalism," and other Horror Stories feat. Ruth
Anne Jisca's sister Ruth joins us as we discuss the ill-conceived, hurtful, and downright abusive parenting tactics that we experienced, raised within the Evangelical church.
14. Deconstructing with Kids, feat. Rachel
Host of "Post-Mormon Parenting" on Youtube, TikTok, and Instigram, Rachel discusses the complexity of parenting through the deconstruction journey, including how to talk about sex, how to give age-appropriate freedoms, and how to broach the subject that one or both of their parents are no longer "believers."
13. Navigating No-Contact with Tia
Host of the Mom Now Podcast, Tia joins us to share her journey of going no contact with her emotionally abusive mother. We discuss narcissism, religion, deconstruction, and finding wholeness after the chaos of being raised in a toxic family system.
12. Spiritual Narcissism
11. No Contact on Fathers Day
10. Religious Narcissism & Calvinistic Upbringing, feat. Tatiana Milne
Tatiana discusses religious traumas from her childhood, and how she is seeking a healthier way forwards.
9. Celebrating Pride Month!
8. Sheila Gregoire: "The Great Sex Rescue"
Sheila has published a new book, supported by a survey of 20,000 women -- the largest survey done to date of Christian women's marital & sexual satisfaction! -- in which she discusses the toxic messages many of us received about sex, and how to move past them.
Among the findings of the study are:
- 47% orgasm gap between husbands and wives discovered.
- 2x the rate of sexual pain as the general population revealed.
- 4 common evangelical beliefs uncovered that contribute to the orgasm gap
- 7 biblical beliefs which help women (and men!) have awesome sex
For more from Sheila:
https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com
Twitter: @sheilagregoire
Instagram: @sheilagregoire
Facebook: Sheila Wray Gregoire
7. The Pursuit of Happiness
6. How Did my Family End up Joining a Cult?!
5. Encountering Fundamentalism Outside of the Church 🤔
4. Celebrating Adolescence
3. Christians and their Rights
2. Sex, Gender, and LGBTQIA
1. Why is Feminism so Toxic to Evangelicalism?
52. Alternatives to White American Evangelicalism, feat. Shane Claiborne
A discussion about finding a Jesus-centred Christianity in 2021.
https://www.redletterchristians.org
51. Women & Worthiness, feat. Melissa Spaulding
A licensed counsellor joins us to discuss emotional health while navigating a shift in one's religious beliefs. We discussed therapy techniques such as EMDR, the importance of inherent value, and faith transitions can be uniquely difficult for women.
Melissa Spalding, SMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counsellor
EMDR Certified Therapist
www.GuidedWellnessCounselingUT.com
Instagram @guidedwellnesscounseling
50. Am I a “Lukewarm Christian?”
49. Blessings and Curses... 🤔
48. Discussing "Toxic Jesuses" with Marc-Henri
A Swiss Evangelical, Marc-Henri was a pastor for 15 years before he left to seek health. He identifies 6 toxic, counterfeit Jesuses who create unhealthy dynamics within Christianity.
@toxicjesusthebook
47. Capital Riots: How We Got Here, How They Make Us Feel
46. Is belief in God Rational? feat. Lee Zook
45. Cultural Humility, feat. Danielle Weber
Danielle talks about training she is taking as a nurse on "cultural humility," and how that can help us rethink how we engage with "the other" in today's context.
44. From Mennonite/AG to Vegan Atheist, feat. Lee Zook
Musician Lee Zook talks about his experience growing up in Evangelicalism, gradually deconstructing, and his new position as a vegan atheist.
43. "Leaving Fundamentalism" feat. Clint Heacock from Mindshift Podcast
42. Discussing Evangelical Messages to LGBTQ, feat. Brian Pengelly
Brian responds with research and personal experience to the things that Evangelicals commonly tell LGBTQ to do, and believe about themselves.
Resources:
- Us vs Us by Andrew MArin
- Justin Lee at www.Geekyjustin.com
- Generous Space Ministries www.generousspaceministries.ca
- Family Acceptance Project https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/
Brian can be reached at bpengelly@nbuc.ca
41. Happy New Year!!
40. "Growing up Gay in Evangelicalism," feat. Brian Pengelly
39. Ex-Mormon Discusses Emotional Health, feat Kyle Bishop
Find Kyle at beyondgodandreligion.com
38. Anorexia & Purity Culture, feat. Rebecca Lemke
How unhealthy messages from Evangelicalism contributed to a life-threatening condition.
37. Why I Converted to Orthodoxy, feat. Daryl Schantz, MD
36. Dr. Scot McKnight, "A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses"
Author joins us to discuss his book which exposes narcissism and corruption in church culture, and how Jesus' message can bring a corrective.
35. Religious Trauma Syndrome, feat. Anne Jisca
34. Why the Bible? feat. Anne Jisca
33. Narcissism, feat. Anne Jisca
32. The End of Religion, feat. Bruxy Cavey
Teaching pastor of the Meeting House church in Oakville, Ontario, Bruxy Cavey writes about the "Subversive Spirituality of Jesus."
31. Sex & Purity Culture
Church promised me that if we kept ourselves pure, married sex would be amazing. But the messages of shame and control lasted long into marriage and did NOTHING to enhance our love-life. So...what SHOULD we have been told? What should we tell our kids?
30. "I Brainwashed Myself" feat. Josiah
How can you be a free-thinker with the threat of excommunication, joblessness, and being called a "heretic" hanging over your head?
29. Hellfire & Damnation? feat. Merle Nisly
Reconsidering how we tell the central story of Christianity, with pastor Merle Nisly.
28. No Contact with Abusive Parents, feat. Gail Pt. 2
A guest discusses going no contact with a psychopathic foster-mother, and a pedophilic foster father. How faith helped and harmed her, and how she continues to find healing for childhood wounds. Part 2 of 2.
27. No Contact with Abusive Parents, feat. Gail
A guest discusses going no contact with a psychopathic foster-mother, and a pedophilic foster father. How faith helped and harmed her, and how she continues to find healing for childhood wounds. Part 1 of 2.
26. Abortion, feat. Anne Jisca
We have been pro-life all our lives. But for the first time, we are taking a look at the actual ISSUES involved, and it has changed our minds...
25. Jesus & John Wayne, feat. Dr. Kristin Du Mez
24. Questions about "The Gospel" feat. Josiah
Is it true that everyone is going to Hell unless they say a magic prayer? I don't know that I believe that anymore...
23. The Importance of Listening to Your "Gut" feat Anne Jisca
We are told that "the heart is deceitful above all else and desperately sick." But does the Bible really want us to mistrust our intuition, and only trust the (male) leadership in our lives? Is it really bad advice to "believe in yourself?"