The Golden Mic Podcast presents
Ep 25. The Recovering Church Girl Pt w/ Tonia Adleta
https://play.goldenmicpodcast.com/0025_adleta
In the previous Golden Mic Podcast, Tonia Adleta talked about her upbringing from being born prematurely to moving over a dozen times during her childhood to finding solace in her religious institution.
By the time the previous episode ended she was already questioning her faith, and by the time her youth ambassador program was identified as a cult by the national media. Tonia made her cut from the church and began her new spiritual journey.
"I am fed the fuck up with the whole system - with the oppression, with the idea that racism is so inherent, that sexism is so inherent in the culture (of some religious institutions). If we know better, we need to do better."
- Tonia Adleta
In this episode, Tonia talks about the effects of the messaging she received from her former church.
- Messages that promote patriarchy and limited the roles of women
- Messages that would promote catastrophes and pandemics as the result of a wrathful god
- Hypocrisy by leaders in the church you preach on thing but do another - as the result of a non-acceptance of self
- Dismissing martyrdom as the highest value
- Refuting the saved vs the damned
But she didn't allow me, the positive psychologist, to wallow in negativity. Tonia describes all of these problems as being an insidious part of the idea that we are a fractured society with fractured individuals.
Throughout the interview, I pull this sparks of what life is like for Tonia now, and through and through it comes back to one of her major identities. Tonia is a recovering church girl.
This one is an instant classic about how we may be done with our past, but it's sometimes not done with us.
"If I truly believe that each person has the right to an individual spiritual experience, that means I can take no judgment in it whatsoever."
- Tonia Adleta
A must listen.
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