The “Obedience Trap” exposes how fear-based faith can quietly keep people stuck, silenced, and disconnected from their emotional truth. In this episode of Keeping It Real on Purpose, with Jeffery M. Lenard, we unpack how obedience is often taught as virtue—while actually masking unresolved emotional wounds, trauma responses, and people-pleasing survival patterns.

This conversation challenges the idea that submission equals spiritual maturity and asks a deeper question: Are you truly aligned—or just afraid to question what you were taught? Together, we explore how fear-driven belief systems suppress self-trust, block healing, and confuse compliance with calling.

If you’ve ever felt guilty for setting boundaries, afraid to use your voice, or torn between faith and emotional honesty, this episode helps you identify where obedience ends and self-betrayal begins—so you can reclaim clarity, agency, and a faith that supports healing, not harm.

A necessary conversation for anyone ready to unlearn survival faith and step into grounded belief—on purpose.

Faith is meant to heal, but what happens when the religious environment you trusted becomes the source of profound pain, anxiety, and deep mental health struggles?

Join us as we sit down with Harmony Ekundayo for a raw and necessary conversation about the invisible burdens carried by those wounded by their faith journey.

Harmony (Prophet Harmoney) shares her courageous personal story, diving into the shame, chronic anxiety, and internal conflict that surfaces when doctrine clashes with emotional reality.

This episode offers validation and empathy for anyone navigating the difficult, complex path of healing from religious trauma. If you have ever felt broken by your belief system, this episode is for you.

“Where Truth Breaks Tradition” signals exposing toxic systems without being harsh or defamatory.

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In this raw and revealing episode of Keeping It Real on Purpose, host Edna J. White sits down with Stephanie Jones to unpack her journey through the dark side of church life—where faith was used as a weapon instead of a source of healing. Stephanie shares her powerful story of being exploited in a toxic church environment, the emotional toll of spiritual exile, and how she’s finding her way back to truth, trust, and freedom.

This conversation isn’t about religion—it’s about reclaiming your voice after being silenced by systems that were supposed to save you. Tune in for a brutally honest look at pain, power, and the process of rediscovering a faith that heals instead of harms.

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Tonight’s conversation stayed with me.

I sat down with Daryl Dittmer as he openly unpacked Religious Trauma, Addiction, and the long road to Recovery. No performance — just honesty, clarity, and the kind of courage that actually helps people see themselves differently.

He didn’t just tell a story… he explained the patterns behind it.

If you’ve ever questioned what you were taught, struggled to separate faith from fear, or rebuilt yourself after survival mode — this one matters.

Watch the LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/live/vzkC5gnxK3Q?si=efWQNBfx2_uleN6P

If this conversation hit close to home and you’re tired of carrying it alone, you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.

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Clarity begins when you stop managing the pain and start understanding it.

Real conversations. Real healing.

Is your relationship with God built on love or on sheer terror? That’s the core question we’re tackling with Pastor Brandon Moore. In this episode of Unchurched, we confront The Church's Bully Tactics head-on: the sermons, the guilt trips, and the cultural pressure that turned God into a Punisher. We discuss the freedom that comes when you stop running from a wrathful deity and start deconstructing the fear that has poisoned faith for generations.

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