Serpent
As a woman who has left religion, learning to let go of control has been one of my biggest challenges yet. I grew up with the Mormon God, and the Mormon God had a big list of rules to follow if you wanted to ascend to the highest kingdom. While a member, I was...
Serpent
Any woman who grew up with siblings has known what it feels like to be a mother-figure. Even if our siblings were older, if we were the only female, we were the little mother of the house. As young women, we became our mother’s helper. Taking care of the house, of the...
Serpent, The Queen
Religion teaches women that being accommodating, agreeable, and easy to work with are respectable traits. What they forget to tell you, is how these are traits encouraged in mainly women because they want women to be the people-pleasing good girls their religious...
Serpent
When we heard jokes or stories about “black sheep” we knew we never wanted to be one. They were weird. Loners. The ones people snickered about behind their backs, the ones mother’s advised against associating with, and somehow often the ones we were attracted to. Why...
Serpent
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay When we lose something in life, we grieve. A pet, a job, a loved one. We mourn what we had and lost, we mourn missed opportunities, and we mourn what we can never share with another. Mourning is a completely natural emotion. Ask...
Serpent
When we make the difficult decision to leave our religion, we make a choice to leave community, friends, family, even hobbies we once regularly participated in. In leaving all this familiarity, we begin to focus on rebuilding our new life. We seek out new friends or...
