Losing Our Religion

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. You never know what tomorrow will bring. But you do know what steps you can take today to move towards the tomorrow you want to come. What step can you take today? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Change Your Life: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to t

This is one of those episodes that could be listened to over and over again. Jeremiah grew up in the Detroit Michigan area. Born into a Christian family he thought he knew how the world worked. After his mother's tragic passing. The grief and pain began his journey of asking the questions that led him to himself. It's a beautifully told, emotional, but comedic story of healing. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth. CONTACT THE GUEST: ZacG@LosingOurReligion.org FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 229: Underneath the Pain, I Found Myself: Jeremiah Drouillard LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate

If someone ignores or shames you for your reactions, that person might be capable of gaslighting you. That’s the person you don’t want around. Also, we take a call from a fellow Loser, Robert who wants to encourage us and share a bit of his story. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It's time for change. WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES & OTHER CONTENT Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: There is No Such Thing as Being Too Sensitive: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you thro

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Often, when we are healing, we can become confused. We aren’t used to tending to ourselves and our own needs. This makes us question if we’re doing things “right.” We may feel like we are being selfish or wrong for doing this. Maybe close friends or members of our family are accusing us of being selfish. Thankful for the work of Dr. Nicole Lepera whose work inspired this episode. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Am I Being Selfish?: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part t

Tori is an anti-racist educator, writer, content creator, and prolific tweeter. She is teaching the folks Dr. King called, “People of Goodwill,” how to do the work that is theirs, in their communities. Anyone who aspires to allyship and accountability is welcome to join her. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth. WHITE HOMEWORK CONTACT THE GUEST: TORI GLASS FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 228: White People Need Homework: Tori Glass LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App! Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patre

Have 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: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES & OTHER CONTENT Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Why Are We Protesting Social Distancing?: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHING NOW!] Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show

Thinking 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 think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Know When You’re Healing: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught u

A 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 and laugh a lot. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth. CONTACT THE GUEST: E-mail zacg@losingourreligion.org FULL SHOW NOTES: BEST OF!: Life is Weird, Love is Weird, It’s Hard, We Can Change!: Nave LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App! Join th

Healing 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's time for change. VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Some Days We Need to Pull Back and Cry. Other Days We Need to Press Harder While We Cry: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHING NOW!] Mon

Thinking 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?" Deconverting and deconstructing are hard, doing so with children is even more difficult for us because we don't want to hurt them. Here is an answer for you to think about. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Indoctrinated Parenting Vs. Liberated Parenting COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Indoctrinated Parenting Vs. Liberated Parenting: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are

Lily 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 open to the opportunity of new relationships? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth. CONTACT THE GUEST: LILY VONTRAPP FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 227: Tend to Your Own Garden. How to Take Care of Yourself: Lily VonTrapp LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo,

We 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 believe? Team human. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Southern Governors Argue Covid-19 Good Christian Virus That Wouldn’t Dare Spread During Church COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It's time for change. VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Why are Religious Services Being Exempt from Quarantine?: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Empl

Thinking 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. What do you think/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Let’s Talk About Tiger King: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world

Lily 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 IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth. CONTACT THE GUEST: LILY VONTRAPP FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 226: Adult Dating is Like Going to the Dump: Lily VonTrapp LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App! Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer thro

If 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? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It's time for change. VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Things We May Be Grieving at the Moment: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. [GET COACHIN

Thinking 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 time while laughing at me in the process. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Survive Quarantine with a Narcissist or Toxic People: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbiased third part to coach you through. : COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is

Amy 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 Central, Last Comic Standing, Viceland, clubs and events all over the country. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. CONTACT THE GUEST: AMY MILLER FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 225: Making Friends, Losing Friends, and Drinking A Lot: Amy Miller LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Donate to the Podcast. Through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App! Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECE

Do 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 real reason people are hoarding toilet paper. By Tom Meisfjord NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: It's time for change. WEEKLY-ISH EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Ran Out of Toilet Paper and My Butt is Still Clean: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. Sometimes you need an unbia

Thinking 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. We’re seeing this as we go through this new transition of life with Coronavirus. Covid 19 has created transition and we’re in the storming, forming, norming, and then soon to be able to be performing in this new reality. How are you feeling? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: One Way We Can Thrive on the Coronavirus Pandemic Changes: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBo

Jonathan 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’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 healed from our religious pasts. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training: Rembering Who You Are, Reprogramming & Transformation. Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. CONTACT THE GUEST: @JonathanBowles and @LapelYeah FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 224: Starting Your Entire Live Over: Jonathan Bowles LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podc