The Broken to Beloved Podcast is for anyone who’s been affected by spiritual abuse, religious trauma, or church hurt and is looking for practical resources to move toward healing and wholeness.
I’m your host, Brian Lee, and I’m so excited to share these conversations with you.
I want this to be a place for deep and meaningful conversations around spiritual abuse and religious trauma. I want to provide you with language to name your experiences and validate your stories, and to give you practical tools that move you toward healing and wholeness.
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Recent Episodes & Show Notes
Very few victims of abuse seek out a lawyer for money—most are looking for something else. They want safety, justice, and agency over an impossible situation.
In this episode, I speak to Melissa J. H...
How do you restore a relationship with God after spiritual abuse?
It makes sense that you might struggle with the idea of being held and loved by God after experiencing spiritual abuse, or any other ...
CW/TW: This episode is centered largely around the topic of Clergy Sexual Abuse (CSA) and its effects. Please be gentle with yourself. If it feels like too much at any point, please feel free to stop,...
Ever wonder what it’s like to run a community solely focused on spiritual abuse?
From dealing with the regular stream of scandals and stories to the practicalities of managing the business, it helps ...
Are there communities that support survivors of religious trauma without being…religious? Spiritual abuse doesn’t only happen in churches. It can happen anywhere and to anyone, but there’s rarely spac...
When your true face has been hidden for so long, what is it like to finally reveal it?
In this episode, we dive into connection, community, relationships, and what happens when it all falls apart. Ho...
How can the Church transform from a place of harm to a sanctuary of healing and truth? How do we learn to recognize the wolves among the sheep when it's hard to tell the difference? How can anyone hol...
What if the church has been telling women the wrong story about their spiritual gifts for centuries? Historian and author Beth Allison Barr and I dive deep into the forgotten narratives of women's min...
The 2025 Annual Summit is over!
This episode is part of our live Q&A session from Wednesday, January 22 with Amy Fritz and Colby Wilkins, hosted on YouTube Live. We responded to emails sent in with the...
