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b'This week\\u2019s guest is Audrey. Audrey spent her childhood and adolescence deep in American Christianity.

In college, she took a course in \\u201cbiblical perspectives,\\u201d and she had many questions. She would shelve the cognitive dissonance for years, though, pretending that everything was fine.

After years of experiencing church from the inside and working around more \\u201csecular\\u201d people, the uncertainty could no longer stay buried. \\u201cSomething just wasn\\u2019t right.\\u201d

Audrey is an atheist now, but deconversion is fresh. The past guilt and shame still come up at times. She\\u2019s reconnecting with her body and mind, though, and loving the woman she is\\u2014the woman she\\u2019s always been.

\\u201cIt\\u2019s so incredible how once I stepped away from christianity, how I was able to gain a better understanding of how to actually take care of myself.\\u201d

\\u201cAll I wanted to do was be a Woman of God. I had my future planned out: I was going to find a husband at college, be the perfect godly woman, and he was going to be the man that was going to lead me in Christ.\\u201d


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Attribution

"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
https://makaihbeats.net/
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