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Jun 2024
1h 13m

Abby On Healing From Religious Trauma

Glennon Doyle and Audacy
About this episode

In honor of Pride month, Glennon shares an encore conversation that she and Amanda had with Abby about how she healed from religious trauma and found spirituality again.


Originally titled, QUEER FREEDOM: How can we be both held and free? Abby, Amanda and Glennon discussed: 


-How Abby learned from church as a child to hate herself—and the healing moment she realized that God and religion are not the same.

-The miraculous letter Glennon received from a reader the day after she came out.

-Glennon’s response to the statement “I disagree with your lifestyle, but I love you anyway.”

-When it’s time to either raise hell inside of—or leave—the institutions that require us to deny who we are or what we know.

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