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Brainwash Be Gone! | Break free of religious trauma as women leaving high demand religions [Deconstruction of spiritual abuse
Brainwash Be Gone! | Break free of religious trauma as women leaving high demand religions [Deconstruction of spiritual abuse
A podcast for women who have left high control, high demand religions. Each 15-minute episode deconstructs one specific rule you were taught, helping you let go of harmful conditioning and live on your own terms. It addresses the psychological echoes of spiritual abuse and religious trauma that persist after leaving. The host, Clare Corado, draws on her own experience to help exvangelicals, exmormons, recovering Catholics, former Jehovah's Witnesses, and others break free from repressed conditioning. New episodes drop on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Episodes
"Not of the world" is a thought-terminating cliche used for spiritual abuse by high control religions
Have you ever been warned to stay "in the world, but not of the world"—and felt fear instead of clarity? This episode dives into how that phrase, often used in high-control religions or high demand religions, fosters spiritual trauma by brainwashing believers to fear the outside world. This fear makes it harder to trust yourself, explore new communities, or imagine a fulfilling life afte
Your Joyful Year Ahead after Leaving High Demand Religion & Spiritual Abuse Behind You
What happens when a year of freedom from a high control religion brings both peace and unexpected anger? In this episode, we explore the complexities of religious trauma and spiritual abuse recovery, focusing on women who are healing after leaving high demand religions. Navigating the path of cult recovery and deconstructing harmful teachings isn’t easy, especially when spiritual trauma lingers lo
Logical Marriage Decisions: What High Control Religions Don't Tell You
What if the rule you were taught about living together before marriage wasn’t protecting you at all, but instead increasing your risk of harm, shame, and long-term regret?For many women navigating religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and deconstruction, beliefs about “living in sin” linger long after leaving a high demand religion. Former exmormon, exvangelical, recovering catholic, excatholic, and
Religious Trauma and Body Shame After Leaving High Demand Religions
What happens when the way you dress becomes a moral issue instead of a personal choice? Many women recovering from abuse and religious trauma after leaving high demand religions still carry deep body shame, fear, and confusion around self-expression. In this episode, we explore how modesty rules were used as tools of control in high control religious groups, rather than for protection, and how thi
The SAHM Choice High Demand Religions Hide | Healing Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma
High control groups dictate stay-at-home motherhood, but what if that isn’t the "only loving choice," but just one of many valid options? In many high demand religious groups, "good motherhood" is narrowly defined, leaving women feeling boxed in, judged, or financially vulnerable. This episode explores the spiritual abuse that enforces these rigid roles and offers insight into
Navigating Holidays After Leaving High Demand Religions | Support for Ex Jehovah's Witnesses, Exvangelicals, Exmormons, Excatholics
If you’ve left a high-control religion or high demand group, the holiday season can be a challenging time filled with spiritual trauma, grief, and pressure. This episode explores how religious trauma and spiritual abuse influence your feelings around the holidays and offers guidance on recovering from abuse in these environments. You'll learn actionable steps to reframe and rebuild your holid
Rediscovering Your Instincts After Leaving High Control Religion and Spiritual Trauma [Excatholics, Exmormons, Exvangelicals, Ex jehovah's witnesses]
What if the very instincts high control groups taught you to fear were actually the key to rebuilding your confidence and personal power after recovering from abuse in high control religions?Many women leaving high‑control religious groups struggle deeply with trusting their own judgment due to the spiritual trauma and brainwashing they endured. This episode unpacks why this distrust occurs, how h
The "One True Religion" Claim: Deconstructing Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma in High Demand Faiths
Explore how the claim to be the “one true religion” often fuels religious trauma and spiritual abuse within high demand and high control faith communities. In this episode, we dive deep into how such exclusivity fosters fear, silence, and psychological control that trap individuals in harmful environments. If you're recovering from abuse or religious trauma, especially within high demand reli
Gratitude for life as an excatholic, exmormon, exvangelical, ex jehovah's witness | Religious trauma & spiritual abuse recovery
Have you ever wondered what life could look like after walking away from a high control group or high demand religion? Are you struggling with spiritual trauma, religious abuse, or confusion about leaving your faith? This episode offers hope and real-life examples from those who have experienced religious trauma recovery after leaving high demand religions like Catholicism, Mormonism, Evangelicali
Spiritual Trauma in Relationships | Freeing ourselves as Exvangelical, Exmormon, ExCatholic, Ex JW women
What if the messages high control religions taught about sex and relationships were never truly about love? This episode dives deep into how high demand religions contribute to spiritual trauma and religious abuse, shaping harmful beliefs about your worth, your body, and what you owe in relationships. We deconstruct the brainwashing from "Why Buy the Cow if He Can Get the Milk for Free?"
Parenting After Leaving High-Demand Religions: Why It’s Harder but Healthier
Are you worried about how leaving a high-control or high-demand religion might affect your children's upbringing? Many parents fear that without the strict structure of their former faith, their kids may struggle or become "rebellious." This episode challenges those fears, explaining why parenting outside authoritarian religious systems can actually foster emotional resilience, conf
"You'll only need your degree if your husband dies" | Deconstructing spiritual trauma from high control groups
Have you ever been told that your education only matters if your husband dies, and felt something inside you recoil even while you tried to believe it was "godly wisdom"? This episode explores the spiritual trauma women face in high control religious groups and the process of recovering from abuse and harmful conditioning. If you were taught that your value lies in supporting a man rathe
Breaking the Rule to Always Say Yes: Reclaiming Intuition from Religious Trauma
Why were women taught to always say yes, even when their intuition screamed no? In this episode, we dive deep into how religious trauma and spiritual abuse in high control and high demand religions train women to ignore their inner voice, often at the cost of their safety and self-worth. If you grew up in such an environment, you might have been conditioned to believe that rejecting a man was prid
Religious Trauma and the Pressure to Have Many Children: Healing Spiritual Abuse from High-Control Religions
If you were raised in a high-control faith and still feel guilt around having fewer or no children, this episode offers healing for religious trauma and spiritual abuse pressures. Many women learn to prove their worth through unlimited childbirth, often at the expense of their health, finances, and dreams. In this episode, we explores the motives behind this pressure in high-demand religions and h
Deconstructing "Men are the head, but women are the neck" | Reclaiming your voice after spiritual abuse and leaving a high-demand religion
If you grew up in a high-control religion and are recovering from abuse, you might still find yourself self-censoring or managing others subtly instead of expressing your true needs. This episode deconstructs the "men are the head, women are the neck" metaphor, unpacking how it fuels sexism and unhealthy communication patterns that linger even after leaving high-demand religions.Discover
“I know this church is true” deconstructed. | The role of blind faith in religious trauma and spiritual abuse in high demand religions
What if letting go of the need to be 100 percent certain is the very thing that finally gives you peace?If you grew up in a high demand religion repeating statements like “I know this church is true,” you were trained to prize certainty over curiosity. This episode helps you recognize how that conditioning can fuel anxiety, people-pleasing, and black-and-white thinking—and how to replace it with g
Am I Still a Good Person After Leaving Religion? Heal Spiritual Abuse, Trauma, and Shame from High Demand Religion
After you left your high-control group, do you secretly worry that leaving may have made you a 'bad' person? Spiritual abuse, religious trauma, and shame from high demand religions can impact our lives long after leaving.This episode speaks to that lingering fear by separating your personal morality from church attendance, so you can stop second-guessing yourself and start living by your
Deconstructing “Submit to Your Husband” | Women’s empowerment as an antidote to spiritual abuse after leaving high-demand religions
Have you ever been told to “submit to your husband”? This episode of Brainwash Be Gone unpacks one of the most damaging and normalized teachings from high-control, high demand religions and reveals how it impacts women’s autonomy, self-worth, and relationships even after leaving religion.If you’ve ever struggled with people-pleasing, self-censorship, or guilt when standing up for yourself, this ep
Heck yeah, “My Body is a Temple” | What women exvangelicals, exmormons, recovering catholics, and former jehovah’s witnesses need to recover from religious trauma and fully enjoy our bodies
Have you ever been told “your body is a temple” in a way that left you feeling ashamed, restricted, or disconnected from yourself? For many of us, this is part of our religious trauma.If you’re healing from high-control religion, rules about modesty, purity, and appearance can linger as anxiety, scrupulosity, and disconnection from your own desires. This episode reframes the metaphor so you can re
“Motherhood is your highest purpose” can lead to low self-worth and religious trauma. How exvangelicals, excatholics, and exmormon women can choose an authentic life whether they have kids or not.
What if your worth has nothing to do with whether you become a mother, how many children you have, or how perfectly you parent?If you were taught that motherhood is your highest purpose, you might still feel pressure, guilt, or confusion when your real life does not match that script. This episode helps you untangle those messages so you can build a life that fits your values, whether that include
“Don’t Ask Questions” is a tool of spiritual abuse used by high demand religions; bring back your curious side to heal religious trauma!
High demand religions don't tolerate questions. This episode explores spiritual abuse in high demand religions and the importance of reclaiming your curiosity. Were you ever told to stop asking questions about your faith, and did it make you doubt your own judgment? If you've grown up in or left a high-control religion, you may still feel a tug-of-war between your natural curiosity and t
Deconstructing “Marriage is forever” [Women overcoming religious trauma as an exvangelical, exmormon, recovering catholic, or former jehovah’s witness]
Explore the impact of rigid beliefs on personal freedom as we discuss the ‘marriage is forever’ doctrine. Have you ever felt trapped by the belief that a promise, especially one about marriage, must be kept no matter the cost?If you grew up in a high-control religion, you were likely taught that breaking vows is sinful or shameful. But what if that belief has been quietly shaping how you handle co
Season 2 Trailer: Deconstructing religious trauma and spiritual abuse for exvangelicals, exmormons, excatholics, former jehovah's witness
If you’ve quit a high control, high demand religion, or cult after suffering spiritual abuse and religious trauma, then YOU know, just like I know, how super frustrating it can be to realize that – although we’re physically free – that old psychological conditioning still echoes in our minds over and over, sometimes for years or even decades after leaving. This insidious training encouraged us to
The Mirror of Sovereignty
Personal development can focus a lot on our own boundaries, our own self care, our own desires... but we can learn so much from observing, recognizing, and respecting the sovereignty of the people around us. Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, exmormon, exvangelical, recovering catholic, former jehovah's witness, women's empowerment, feminism, leaving religion, sel
A Stress-Less Way to Discover your Life's Purpose
Maybe the answer to one of life's greatest questions is not a snappy elevator pitch. This episode is about following the clues from the universe to find your next step.Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, exmormon, exvangelical, recovering catholic, former jehovah's witness, women's empowerment, feminism, leaving religion, self-worth, high demand religions, hig
I'm a basic Karen with RBF and ... IDGAF
Silly-seeming memes can be surprisingly insidious in their impact on how we live. In this episode, we break down how online humor about women often surreptitiously conveys social rules we are expected to follow but that's not in our best interests. We'll talk about being "Basic," being a "Karen," and "Resting Bitch Face."Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual a
Why You Need to Go "Too Far"
Growing and changing can feel new and uncomfortable. This episode talks about one important thing to keep in mind as you're trying to embody new ways of being. Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, exmormon, exvangelical, recovering catholic, former jehovah's witness, women's empowerment, feminism, leaving religion, self-worth, high demand religions, high contro
How to Go with "The Flow"
Scheduling your life based on the rhythms of your menstrual cycle can be magical. Each phase of our cycles can be a gift in its own way!Resources mentioned in the episode:https://floliving.com for info about hormone science, MyFlo app, and founder Alisa Vittiwww.theroyalshaman.com for info about spiritual teacher Makhosi, aka The Royal Shaman*(I'm not affiliated with either of these companies
From Naive Girl to Wise Woman
Naivety in women has historically been celebrated, but there is so much more awesomeness that awaits us when we transition into true, mature womanhood.This episode is about observing how we may have been conditioned to show up in various life scenarios, and what a wise and discerning grown ass adult woman would ideally do instead.Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, exmormon,
Making Friends as an Adult
Why is it so much harder to make close friends as an adult? This episode is about acting intentionally to recruit some awesome friends in this era of your life.Topics: Religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, exmormon, exvangelical, recovering catholic, former jehovah's witness, women's empowerment, feminism, leaving religion, self-worth, high demand religions, high control gro
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