My guest this week is Suandria Hall. Suandria is a trauma informed counselor specializing in faith transitions. Her practice, My Choice My Power, is online and she offers mental health counseling to residents in Colorado and life coaching sessions online, by phone, and email for anyone.
Suandria tells her story of being groomed for ministry in a very Charismatic community with rigorous honesty. In her early adulthood she began to question and eventually deconverted. She had a positive experience with a therapist who “held space” for her shifting faith positions. She then went on to become a secular counselor to help others through the same process.
We talk about the power of parents to influence children. And the damage that can occur when parents pass that responsibility on to an invisible god.
Her approach to counseling is trauma informed and acknowledges Adverse Religious Experiences and religious trauma. She helps people going through the process of deconstruction and deconversion while being open to all faith positions.
Links
Suandria’s Counseling Site
https://www.mychoicemypower.com/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/mychoicemypower
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/mychoicemypowercounseling/
Interact
Adverse Religious Experiences series
https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/category/adverse-religious-experiences/
Steps of Deconversion
https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/
Full show notes
https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/suandria-hall-my-choice-my-power/
Attribution
"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Makaih_Beats 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

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