Healing Religious Wounds: Using the Body For Healing
The episode explores the significance of using questions to bypass the ego and access deeper self-awareness and healing.
Hosts Josh and Wendy discuss their personal journeys of navigating religious trauma and healing spiritual wounds.
They emphasize the importance of allowing conversations to flow naturally and organically, reflecting real and heartfelt emotions.
Josh shares his path of self-discovery, initially focusing on the brain and later incorporating the body through practices like breathwork and somatic healing.
The episode highlights the cultural and generational conditioning that suppresses emotional expression and the importance of learning to feel emotions for healing.
Wendy shares her experiences with emotional expression within her family and religious context, and the impact of religious teachings on emotional health.
The concept of "functional freeze" from a nervous system perspective is explored, illustrating how it affects emotional and physical well-being.
The hosts discuss the process of deconstructing deeply ingrained beliefs and reclaiming one's true identity, emphasizing the role of the body in this journey.
Practical tools and suggestions for healing are provided, including the use of the Healing Questions Guide and breathwork.
The episode concludes with reflections on the importance of presence, emotional aliveness, and reclaiming one's true self for authentic living and healing.
Personal Healing Journey: Viewers who have experienced religious trauma or are on a path of healing from spiritual wounds may find the hosts' personal stories and insights relatable and helpful. #ExMormon #HealingJourney
Emotional Connection: Those looking to deepen their emotional awareness and learn how to connect with their emotions in a healthy way might benefit from the discussions and practices shared. #EmotionalHealing #ExMormonHealing
Body Awareness: Individuals interested in somatic practices and understanding the connection between the body and emotional healing can gain valuable insights and practical tools. #SomaticHealing #BodyAwareness
Authentic Living: People seeking to live more authentically and break free from societal or religious conditioning may find inspiration and guidance in this episode. #AuthenticLiving #ExMormonLife
Understanding Trauma: Viewers who want to understand the impact of trauma, particularly religious trauma, on the mind and body can learn from the hosts' experiences and explanations. #ReligiousTrauma #TraumaHealing
Practical Tools: Those looking for practical tools and techniques, such as breathwork and the Healing Questions Guide, to aid in their healing journey will find useful information. #HealingTools #Breathwork
Support and Community: Individuals who feel isolated in their healing journey may find a sense of community and support through the shared experiences and conversations in this episode. #ExMormonCommunity #HealingSupport
Spiritual Exploration: Viewers interested in exploring their spirituality outside of traditional religious frameworks may find the episode thought-provoking and enlightening. #SpiritualExploration #ExMormonSpirituality
Self-Discovery: Those on a path of self-discovery and personal growth can gain insights into connecting with their true selves and reclaiming their identity. #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth
Educational Insights: Individuals curious about the psychological and physiological aspects of healing from trauma can learn from the hosts' discussions on the nervous system, emotional responses, and more. #TraumaEducation #HealingInsights
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Video Transcript
When I wrote the healing questions guide, this is the one of the things that I loved about the power of a question.
And that is, it bypasses the ego. Because it's a question you don't know the information to you have to get the answer from a different location. So you ask the question, and then it interrupts the neural pathways or the skis, and the grooming of the field of your of your
mind and it interrupts that established neural pathway or the belief and then it
opens up a dialogue between you
and your holy self, and your body, using a question you didn't think to ask, because you
didn't know it was related. And so we're conditioned not to doubt that we have actually assigned doubt
and losing our faith to losing our identity, because our identity is so tightly meshed with
the church, we'll lose our relationships. Like I said before, we actually risk losing everything.
if we question and any environment where it is not safe to disagree is not an
environment for growth that is an environment of control. Welcome to
Unbinding. We're Josh and Wendy, two fellow travelers on this journey of
waking up out of our religious paradigm. We're navigating religious trauma and
healing our spiritual wounds. So if you're not yet feeling free, well come
join us in learning how to just be. Welcome back. I'm Wendy and I'm here with our co host,
Josh, and we are talking together and trying to come up with a title for this podcast today.
And realizing that the minute we connect, stories start to evolve out of us and we start connecting
and the first thing we say we should be recording this, we
should be recording this. So what what Josh was just saying
is maybe the the podcast has this life of its own. And it's,
it's like the one that that is guiding us through the
experience. I like how you said it better, but we weren't
recording that. But so today, we're going to talk about
emotions and how we've been emotionally severance and all
this. And then we're like, No, no. And so many things started
to come up. And we've had like a conversation for an hour wishing
that we were recording it. But we did try to narrow it down
into speaking about the body today. And it's gonna go
everywhere. I just know it is. But we'll come back to the body
and we'll let our words be natural, organic, heartfelt. And
And we'll just become this living conduit for what's coming through us in a really raw
way that just taps into our true emotions, our true thoughts, our feelings and isn't
curated in a way to be professional, but in a way that's meant to be real and heartfelt.
And that is our goal with this podcast.
Have any thoughts on that, Josh?
Yeah, I like this.
It has been challenging to try to organize
all of what we're unpacking into episodes or categories
because it's so intertwined and there's so much to unpack.
And so I think the conversations,
just allowing them to flow how they're supposed to.
And then I was thinking about last week
where we went over the ways that were underdeveloped.
And then, so if we start talking about the body,
so I'll just share a little bit about, so my path,
I left in 2019 and I looked back on my Audible playlist,
like when I purchased these different books
and it was kind of like measuring sticks of my path.
And so there was so much around the brain
that I was learning about, neuroplasticity and hypnosis
and subconscious patterns and like all of this desire
