Growing Up in Fear-Based Faith (and Finding a Kinder Way to the Divine)

What happens when the rules that shaped your childhood stop fitting the person you’ve become? I open up about growing up in a fear-based Christian environment, the moment a simple religion textbook cracked my world open, and the long, uneven road from rigid certainty to a kinder, more spacious spirituality. This is a story about unlearning, healing, and finding a way to the divine that feels honest. We walk through the realities of a tightly controlled church life—how community can nourish b...