Losing Our Religion

This is a crazy time, we’re all feeling it, f*ck the snake oil salespeople that would take advantage of us. Here’s some hilarious meltdown about it all with some encouraging words and daily help. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Televangelist Jim Bakker Sued Over Fake Coronavirus Treatment : NPR 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Jim Bakker, Snake Oil, Corona Virus, and Finding Peace: 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

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. The fear is real for many. I know we are hurting, let us do so in ways that heal and create spaces of comfort and peace for ourselves and others as we find our way through this. Let's talk about it. What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: #1439. Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. Look for his book "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Deadly Germs." NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week V

Jonathan is a firey, 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 and grown 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 223: A Freight Train of Religious Trauma Healing and Encouraging Laughter: Jonathan Bowles 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 C

“I’m Angry and Grieving the Life I Wasted!” Fellow Loser and listener Natasha wrote in asking how to get rid of the anger and grief she is feeling the time religion and trauma has stolen from her. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: How to Heal Anger and Grief from Time Lost in Religious and Childhood Trauma: 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:

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Growing up religious many of us where taught enmeshment and codependency not an autonomous partnership in our relationships. The idea of “two becoming one” is toxic relationship math. One person plus one person does not equal one, it equals two. What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Combat Enmeshment and Codependency: 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 ZA

We begin this episode down a rabbit hole of my mystic therapy weirdness and then thankfully, pivot into relationships, and then drinking and laughing hysterically about Katherine’s Christian past with YWAM (Youth With A Mission), "demon possession," and exorcism. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Causing Accidental Death or Injury 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: Katherine is a Therapist, Counselor, MA, LMHCA, MHP and can be reached by emailing Zac at zacg@losingourreligion.org. CONTACT ZAC FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 222: COUGH IT OUT! Expelling Demons and Healing From Trauma: Katherine LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. There’s no way around it. Change is hard. Taking ownership of your life and self-care is hard.

Being you is hard enough, it’s even harder when being you somehow trigger's someone else. We can’t change how people perceive us, but when we hurt them unknowingly, no matter how they react, they deserve to be heard. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: We Can’t Please Everyone, But We Should Listen if They’re Hurt: 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 O

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. You are unique. Your struggles are not. We are universally bound to each other and face and deal with the same struggles. As we face our internal struggles we begin to have more compassion for the struggles of others. Keep going! MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Be Encouraged, You’re Not Alone in Your 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:

Warning, this episode includes a story of a traumatic fatal accident. It’s not easy healing, let alone healing from something fatal. Katherine shares her story of healing and becoming. It’s honest, heartfelt, and helpful. 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: Katherine is a Therapist, Counselor, MA, LMHCA, MHP and can be reached by emailing Zac at zacg@losingourreligion.org. CONTACT ZAC FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 221: Self-Awareness, Traumatic Events, and Healing: Katherine 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 an

There’s no way around it. Change is hard. Taking ownership of your life and self-care is hard. But life is hard anyways so you might at well engage your dreams and change! It's time to leave your abusive or toxic situations. If it's not serving you well anymore why continue engaging it? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Change is Hard, But So is Not Changing: 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!]

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. The things that trigger our traumas are the very things that point us to what to heal in our lives. Traumas form our lives and if we don’t heal them we don’t grow or have significant reasons why we can’t grow. What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera: 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

This episode is a repeat of 153, but it had so many downloads we made it a “Best Of!” Josh Black and Haven Yates are completely enamored with one another in more ways than one. Clowns, BDSM, Polyamory, and Haven’s Borderline Personality Disorder make for a wild and beautiful story of helpful insight into relationships. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Play Party Podcast 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: Josh & Haven FULL SHOW NOTES: BEST OF THE PODCAST! EPISODE 153: A Daddy and His Little: Josh Black and Haven Yates 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 C

The journey inward is hard at first. It’s counterintuitive and certainly countercultural. But after waking up to the realization of the layers of programming others have put on us we begin the journey of accepting ourselves, hearing ourselves, and healing ourselves. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: The Inward Work of Healing: 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 Ch

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Ever try to force something to happen? Make someone like you? Yung Pueblo says, “If we are trying to force something to happen, we are acting with craving and attachment, meaning that our state of being is filled with the tension that often blocks the fulfilling of our desires.” Do you find this to be true? What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Yung Pueblo on Expectations, Attachments, and Goals. NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: When Results, Expectations Change Our Mood: Yung Pueblo: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transi

Grief from the loss of a loved one triggered a deep fear of death. Meghann began coping with marijuana, which triggered a dormant dissociative disorder that separated her from her life for a time. This is the story of their healing journey back into living again. 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: CONTACT ZAC FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 220: Grief, Dissociative Disorder, PTSD and Healing it All: Meghann 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,

Valentine’s Day is upon us, and many of us feel the pressure to feel a certain way or be a certain way. Well, guess what? You don’t! Should our lives be lived out of obligation? Should obligation guide our love lives and relationships? What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Valentine's Day Narcissism and Obligation: 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

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Many of us have had abusive encounters with narcissistic leaders, family members, or partners. Once we wake up from those experiences and heal, we learn that the only freedom will be to love them from afar and no longer give them voice or place in our life and turn that energy into self-care and self-love. What do you think? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: When We Heal We Open Ourselves up to Stronger Personal Power: Zac Gandara LOSER DEALS: Save 50% on QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Self-Employed Transitions are hard, making them alone, even harder. S

Meghann, from the bible-land of Indiana, was conceived while her parents were getting a divorce. Growing up fast taught her very quickly that her experiences with her father traumatized her. But she healed, here’s Meghann’s story. 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: CONTACT ZAC FULL SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 219: THANKS DAD, for Being a Narcissist: Meghann 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. RECEIV

Instead of talking to me about sex on tv, my parents would just shame it, and then yell at me to turn it off and not to watch that! Well, that way of dealing with things has led to being developmentally delayed in our sexuality and relationships. What’s the alternative to shame? TEACHING! MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 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 EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Empowered Sex Super Bowl!: 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 Mel

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Thank you, fellow Loser and listener Brittany who has been a victim of sexual assault, for writing in to give voice as a victim to the Monday Meltdown episode regarding Kobe Bryant. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES! 12-week Video Training on Deprogramming & Transformation, Your Access is Waiting! Become a Member Now! COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA: Break glass ceilings and transition through tough shit. WEEKLY EMAIL: Coaching, News, and Updates on New Video Training Release THIS EPISODES SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Can We Be Both Angry at Kobe’s Rape Abuse and Have Empathy for His Fans and Family?: Kobe Bryant: 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