Connecting Through Stories: My Experience with the Life After Leaving Podcast

Hey podcast lovers, here’s a new new one for you to check out! My friend Zinnia started a podcast for ex-Christadelphians, by ex-Christadelphians. Yours truly is the star of episode 1.

ex-christadelphian FAQ

Over the years, I’ve been asked about my experience in Christadelphia, leaving it and moving on with life after. Here’s a compilation of questions and answers. I will probably edit and add more as time goes on. Feel free to ask more in the comments.

Apocalypse Nope

Turns out, I might not really want to live in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future.

The Aftermath of Friendship Lost

Anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – I experienced it all as I came to terms with losing my best friend over our differences in belief.

Losing My Religion – Part 5, The Bitter End

The one where Heather naively thinks she can have the best of both worlds, and boy howdy does it not work out that way.

Losing My Religion – Part 4

Have you ever cast a ballot to determine someone’s standing in the church? I participated in the disfellowshipping of one of my best friends, and yet I STILL couldn’t bring myself to walk away from it all.

Losing my Religion – Part 3

It was like I had two personas – the holy churchgoer, and the day-to-day me. I don’t know how Dave put up with me for so long.

Losing My Religion – Part 2

It was time for me to grow up! Move out, get a job, find a good Christadelphian man to be my husband… but it wasn’t quite working out the way I had imagined.

Losing My Religion – Part 1

I heard REM’s hit Losing my Religion for the first time when I was about 11 years old. Although I’d hear it again many times over the next decade, the Sunday in 2004 when it played as I drove to meeting for the last time, it felt as if it had been written for me.

Don’t Hate – Meditate

Learning to take care of myself has been a challenge, coming from a family and culture of “do-gooders”, but you can’t help others if you’re not in a good place yourself!

For me, meditation is key to feeling better both mentally and physically.