Prone to Wonder

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Maybe you're new here, maybe you've been around since the beginning. Either way, times are changing. In this episode, we're summing up what our deconstruction and podcast have meant and where we are now. Most importantly, we talk about where we're going and what that means for you. Can't wait to hear your thoughts. Links: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries Prone to Wonder @pronetowonderco Becka Robinson @beckarobinson What Now Radio @whatnowradio --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Let's talk existential crisis, midlife, thirties and fourties, and navigating life as a Millenial in the world right now- If you enjoy these episodes, please share them with a friends, post your favorite bits on social media and tag us @pronetowonderco and leave a positive review. This helps us get in front of more people who are looking for community and conversations about these topics. Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries & Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Happy 50th Episode!!!!! And happy 10,000 downloads! We are so so so honored you're wondering along with us. Thank you so much for supporting our conversations with your engagement! To honor this milestone we decided to do a follow up to Becka's story and share Amber's story of deconstructing and reconstructing. Amber has been actively deconstructing since the start of this podcast but because she and her husband were employed by a ministry she kept her story private until now. We hope you enjoy getting to hear more from her on this! If you enjoy these episodes, please share them with a friends, post your favorite bits on social media and tag us @pronetowonderco and leave a positive review. This helps us get in front of more people who are looking for community and conversations about these topics. Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries & Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode we tackle the topic of Divorce through the lens of a deconstruction journey. If you enjoy these episodes, please share them with a friends, post your favorite bits on social media and tag us @pronetowonderco and leave a positive review. This helps us get in front of more people who are looking for community and conversations about these topics.  Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries & Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

While we're finishing up some technical changes and shifts, we're jumping back in with some backlogged conversations. In this episode, we talk through how religion and capitalism have impacted our need to feel like we've accomplished enough. Amber specifically brings up some issues with growing up focusing on having a large impact in ministry, and now figuring out what success means with that new void. If you've wondered "what's next" or "what do I do with my life now", this is a great conversation for you. Join in and wonder with us.  If you enjoy these episodes, please share them with a friends, post your favorite bits on social media and tag us @pronetowonderco and leave a positive review. This helps us get in front of more people who are looking for community and conversations about these topics. Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries & Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

We're back with another conversation about sensuality, sexuality, and all the ways growing up in early 2000's purity culture affected our development of both of those things. In this episode, we go over some of the reactions and questions Amber got when she did an anonymous Q&A on her instagram and her story of coming out, identifying as queer while in a heteronormative monogamous relationship, and her perspective on unraveling sexuality and orientation as a woman in your 30's. Join in and wonder with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Happy New Year Wonderers! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and we are so excited to be back for another season of Prone To Wonder. Join us today as we sit down together for our first recording of the year and Amber shares about a midlife existential crisis she's currently in and we jump all over from topic to topic related to how sometimes in a deconstruction journey it spirals way beyond just deconstructing our religious beliefs. If you've ever felt like you were deconstructing everything, this episode is for you! If you enjoy these episodes, please share them with a friends, post your favorite bits on social media and tag us @pronetowonderco and leave a positive review. This helps us get in front of more people who are looking for community and conversations about these topics. Thanks for wondering with us! Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries & Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

If the midterm elections left you feeling chaotic and frustrated, you're not alone. Politics are tricky to navigate in general but if you've switched sides or are in a deconstruction or faith transition that is leaving you with differing perspectives than your family, friends, or previous community it can feel extra tricky and frustrating. Listen in as Amber shares her perspective being a deconstructed evangelical living in the south in Georgia. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

*18+ convo* For those of us who grew up in the early 2000's height of purity culture and are now raising kids of our own, navigating the conversations around sex, safety, expectations, and respect with our kids can feel especially tricky. Most of us don't have a positive roadmap of how to have these conversations and it can be a battle against fear when we are trying to figure out what to say and how to approach things. As parents of preteens who are growing up in the age of tiktok, Amber and Becka are navigating this in real time and in today's conversation share how they are approaching it and what they think is the number 1 most important thing to remember in these conversations no matter where you fall in your beliefs. Listen in and let us know your thoughts! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Becka and Amber dig deep into the concept of "EMBODIMENT" and what it means to them in their deconstruction and reclamation journeys. Embodiment and somatics are a popular topic but what does that mean for those of us who were taught not to trust our bodies or that our natural urges were evil? Listen in as the ladies dig deeper into the big feelings they were taught they shouldn't feel and how they've been working to reclaim a sense of embodiment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Welcome to our new release day! Thursdays are where its at! Hope you're hanging with us today because this is a topic we hear in conversations a LOT! How do we deal with doubt during deconstruction or a faith transition? That little voice in the back of our mind that says, "But what if you're wrong about all this?!" In this week's episode we talk about how we work though this, the verses that have helped us, the books and resources that help, and more. Let us know your thoughts after! Share this episode with a friend, tag us on Instagram and please leave us a review if you are enjoying these conversations! @pronetowonderco @amberhumphries @beckarobinson www.askptw.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

We are so excited to share this hilarious conversation with you guys. In it, we talk about the experience of "The Audacity" and what it feels like and has meant for us in our reclamation of our sensuality. We are now considering getting matching tattoos over this. Listen in and let us know what the audacity means to you! Your hosts: @amberhumphries @beckarobinson Find us on IG: @pronetowonderco Submit your reactions or questions: www.askptw.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode REMIX we pull out of our archives one of our first episodes in which Amber shares about her fears (and possible heart attack) surrounding her first experience in a New Age bookshop and we address the very blurry lines between things we experienced growing up in the church and things we were told were evil by the church. Have you ever thought about how similar some of these things like manifesting and prayer, prophecy conferences and tarot readers, speaking in tongues and channeling, laying on hands and energy healers are? Join us as we question everything in this week's episode. Please review and share if you enjoyed the episode @pronetowonderco @amberhumphries @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode, we tackle an instagram voted on topic which is the problem of spiritual bypassing in reguards to mental health both in the western evangelical church AND in the new age spiritual communities which so many of us who deconstruct find ourselves among. It can be challenging to feel like we are coming up against stigma and judgement no matter where we go and when Becka brought this topic up on Instagram it was unanimously voted on as a topic to talk more about. So in this episode we share about Spiritual Bypassing, what it is, what it looks like, and the truth of mental health self care. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Tag us online as you're listening and let us know! Or send in your comments to www.askptw.com. Please subscribe and leave a review if you are enjoying these conversations @pronetowonderco @amberhumphries @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's BONUS episode (which Becka has decided is her new favorite of all of season 3!) Amber brings up the topic of vanity and pride and how sometimes she struggles with the blooming confidence she is experiencing as she reclaims her sense of self after growing up in purity culture in the evangelical church of the 90's and 2000's. This unscripted chit chat style episode invites you into what it's like to just sit around with us and hash out a topic. We hope you love the silly twists and turns as we help each other navigate the sticky feelings of "is this cringe?" "is this okay?" and "why is this an issue for me!?" We cover everything from thirst traps to the emotional labor we felt like we were trained to manage as young women to tinted moisturizer. Come along and wonder with us. @pronetowonderco RESOND TO US: www.askptw.com If you enjoy this episode please post a screenshot on social media and tag us and leave a positive review so others can find us more easily Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumprhies Becka Robinson @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

*TW* This episode is a response episode to the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade. In it we openly discuss 18+ topics such as abortion, reproductive rights, sex, the sanctity of life and use a lot of adult language. Listener discretion is advised. Amber and Becka both ended up on the pro-choice side of the Roe v. Wade discussion but how we got there was two very different paths. For anyone in the midst of their own deconstruction, faith transition or even just reclamation of their personal sovereignty, we hope that hearing our candid discussion after the ruling helps you feel less alone and perhaps inspires you to think outside your own box, take action where needed, and have grace for more people than you did before. With love, Amber & Becka Send us your responses to www.askptw.com or on instagram @pronetowonderco Your hosts: @amberhumphries + @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In today's BONUS episode we are responding to YOUR comments from our "Praying For You" episode. We loved hearing your responses to the conversation and the responses formed the most beautiful spectrum of experience. We thought it was too good to skip over so today we are digging more into your remarks and clarifying for you our stance on deconstruction, what we hope for you, and the container we are building for our community with these conversations. Listen in and wonder with us! IG @pronetowonderco @amberhumphries @beckarobinson www.askptw.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

When you go through a faith transition like deconstruction, one of the most universally unsettling experiences that no one talks about is when you lose jargon that at one point was so comforting to you. What do you say when you can't say those things anymore? Why are those phrases so engrained in us? Why do they make us feel better? And what do we do and say now? Join us as Becka and Amber share about navigating these strange shifts and share what helps them make sense of it all and move forward to find new ways of expressing care and concern. Your hosts: @beckarobinson @amberhumphries @pronetowonderco If you are enjoying our content please share it with a friend and leave a positive review so that others who are looking for community during deconstructing can find it. Send us your comments, questions, and suggestions to www.askptw.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

We're back with a special conversation you asked us for- How do we navigate modesty and sex positivity in parenting? For those of us that are reclaiming our own spiritual and sexual autonomy after a deconstruction or faith transition it can feel overwhelming trying to parent young people through a stage of life we don't have a model of parenting for or that we are just now figuring out for ourselves since we were not allowed to when we were younger. If you've felt the tension of this situation, we hope that this conversation makes you feel less alone and leaves you with a feeling of hope that you're already doing a great job just by caring about getting better at this. Listen in and let us know your thoughts! www.askptw.com Review and Share if you enjoy this episode Instagram: @pronetowonderco Your hosts: @amberhumphries & @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

BONUS EPISODE: In this week's bonus episode, we share a conversation we had one day about our experiences wrestling with the concept of absolute truth. Certainty is such a foundational aspect of the faith we both have transitioned from and it can feel very shaky and unsettling to navigate the spaces left when we remove certainty from our spiritual experience and settle into new ways of thinking and feeling. Listen in and let us know your experience with absolute truth in your deconstruction and reclamation journey at www.askptw.com Your hosts: @amberhumphries @beckarobinson @pronetowonderco --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this BONUS episode we tackle a common struggle: how to unpack all the black and white thinking we were trained into during our time growing up in the church and how dangerous that type of thinking can be towards our communities, our relationships, and to ourselves. *TW* We bring up the topic of reproductive rights and abortion as it relates to black and white thinking In this episode Amber shares how this has been a big part of her journey recently and how she's found old black and white mentalities popping up in her life and the work she is doing to heal and reclaim shades of gray and nuance in the way she views herself and the world around her. We share some of the resources that have helped both of us do the inner work and spot the sneaky ways this old programming pops up. Some of those recourses mentioned include: The Happy Whole Way account on instagram - @happywholeway Lacey Phillips and To Be Magnetic - www.tobemagnetic.com The book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries Becka Robinson @beckarobinson Send us your thoughts, questions, comments to www.askptw.com Follow us on IG @pronetowonderco If you enjoyed this episode please share it with a friend, post your favorite quotes and tag us on social or leave a positive review so others who are on their own journey of deconstruction and faith transitions can find us. We are so grateful for you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Today, we are pulling back the curtain an experience many of us deal with during and after faith transitions and that is navigating overwhelming feelings of doubt and grief. Did we make a mistake? Did we ruin our lives? Are we going straight to hell? How do we navigate missing something that we know isn't healthy or aligned for us right now? Are these feelings normal or a red flag? If you've struggled with these during your deconstruction, listen in as Amber shares how she's feeling after her last Sunday on staff for music ministry and Becka shares her experience of overcoming the awkward transition to living in a completely different way than she was used to. In this episode we share insights, tips, and give you some encouragement to help you navigate the complex emotions you might be experiencing. Listen in, let us know what resonates the most deeply with you, and share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it. Thanks for wondering with us! Follow on social: @pronetowonderco Send us your comments: www.askptw.com Your hosts: @amberhumphries @beckarobinson Please leave us a review if you are enjoying the show Tag us on social media and let us know you're listening And send a favorite episode to a friend to help us build our community of wonderers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

This is an 18+ conversation that is NSFW In this week's episode, we continue in our "Reclaiming Sex" series by jumping into navigating purity culture when you're in a couple. What are the lifelong struggles that came from the messaging and how do they affect us in partnerships? We brought in our husbands because we wanted the perspective of two males who grew up in purity culture and then married females who grew up in purity culture. It's a miracle we've all made it this far! HAHA. Listen in for our very candid conversation covering everything from the unique fetishes we developed to the struggles that we faced as couples even the morning of recording and make sure you've got your headphones in as this conversation is not safe for work or underage ears. We cannot wait to hear your responses to this week's episode! Support The Show: 1. Tag us on social media @pronetowonderco while you're listening and tell us your favorite part of the episode 2. Leave a positive review to help boost us in the algorithm 3. Share an episode with a friend privately Your Hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries Becka Robinson @beckarobinson Special Guests: Jared Humphries Nate Robinson @ucfnate Talk With Us: Send us your thoughts, questions, stories, etc to www.askptw.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this 18+ episode, we tackle an important question sent in from a listener about how do we even begin to explore and reclaim our sexuality when we are single or deconstructing at a different pace from our current partner? This topic is so important to us because for anyone who grew up in a shame-based belief system around sexuality, it can be very scary to begin to break those thought patterns and learn how to express yourself in a sex-positive way. In this episode we share one of Becka's biggest AHA moments that helped us feel brave and more free along with some other insights from our own journey and practical resources to help you as you begin to take this back for yourself. Please let us know your thoughts after the episode by sending us your questions or comments to www.askptw.com and if you find this season helpful, tag us on social media as you're listening @pronetowonderco and leave us a positive review so others who are wondering can find us too! We need your help to build this incredible community and we are so grateful to have these conversations about deconstructing and reclaiming with you. **This episode contains adult conversations about sexuality and is not for younger ears** Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries Becka Robinson @beckarobinson Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prone-to-wonder/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In today's episode our founding member Vanessa Fernandez rejoins us to discuss the topic of embodiment. This word has become a bit of a buzzword in the deconstruction and spiritual awakening spaces as well as in trauma healing but what does it even mean? What does embodiment look like? And what are some basics to what it feels like to be more embodied and how do you even get yourself there? If you've been wondering about embodiment and how you might start to implement it in your own journey, listen in and let us know your thoughts after! Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries Becka Robinson @beckarobinson Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop Work with Vanessa: www.theenneagramworkshop.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Surprise! We are kicking off season three with a bonus episode right at the start! We thought it would be helpful to share more about our specific brand of religious backgrounds. We know religious trauma and the complexities of deconstructing come in a wide range of experiences so we wanted to dig a little deeper into where we came from so you can get to know us better, and hopefully understand our perspectives more as well as feel less alone if you had a similar upbringing. We'd love to hear from you after. Send us a text or voice message to www.askptw.com and let us know if you share any of our childhood memories or what your own special blend of upbringing was that you are deconstructing from. We'd love to connect! And tune in next week for our next full episode with a very special guest we know you will be thrilled to hear from! www.pronetowonderco.com instagram.com/pronetowonderco instagram.com/amberhumphries instagram.com/beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Welcome to season three! We're back and wondering more than ever! In today's episode we lay the foundation for our season three theme by talking about the act of Reclamation in a deconstruction journey and how the act of taking things back (both big and small) can help to move us forward after deconstructing our faith. Listen in to hear how this came up, the big and small things that started our reclamations, and a challenge to you to carry you into the upcoming week! Join the conversation by sending us your thoughts at www.askp2w.com and let us know what big or small things you have reclaimed or would like to work on reclaiming. Has this come up in your journey yet? What stage of the process are you at? We want to hear it all! If you want to support us this season, please subscribe and leave a review. We'd also love if you shared this episode on social media and let us know your favorite parts or send it to a friend who is going through their own journey and might need a little encouragement. We are so grateful to be having these conversations with you all! www.pronetowonderco.com instagram @pronetowonderco Your hosts: @amberhumphries @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Welcome back Wonderers to season three of the Prone to Wonder podcast! We have never been so excited for a season as we are for this one and we cannot wait to get into these conversations alongside you! First though, we wanted to re-introduce ourselves and share a sneak peek into what to expect in this third season from us as well as share with you the THREE big changes that happened between season two and season three! In this shorter welcome episode we go over where we came from as a podcast, where we are now, and where we're taking you in this upcoming season to give you a little teaser of all we have planned. Subscribe, share and review if you love the ideas for the new season so you don't miss a thing! www.pronetowonderco.com instagram @pronetowonderco Your hosts: @amberhumphries @beckarobinson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

As a follow up to our Thanksgiving episode on going home for the holidays while deconstructing, we are back with another chat about navigating the holidays while or after deconstructing. In this week's episode Becka shares about how she has slowly reclaimed holiday rituals and built a deeply meaningful set of family traditions that are outside of religion for herself and her family. Amber shares how she is doing during her first Christmas season that feels different, and both hosts share about the core values of the season that feel the most important to them that they are focusing on this holiday season. If you have been dealing with sadness or grief around Christmas and how to celebrate it when you feel disconnected from the nativity story or rituals of your childhood, we hope this episode is a light for you to begin navigating your way through and to give you hope that you can find deeply beautiful ways to celebrate that make you excited for the season! The Two Free Holiday Support Offerings we have: Vanessa's Advent Series - RSVP here Becka's Reclaiming Rituals Winter Solstice Series - RSVP here Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review and share an episode with a friend. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

We took this last week and weekend off to celebrate the holiday with our families so there's no new full episode today. But in its place we have two very special offerings to announce to you! Listen in and then use the links below to RSVP: Vanessa's Advent Series - RSVP here Becka's Reclaiming Rituals Winter Solstice Series - RSVP here Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review and share an episode with a friend. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode, we are talking about the elephant in the room: going home for the holidays. In every deconstruction community we are in and in our own coaching practices we hear it almost unanimously that people are nervous, stressed out, and feeling sadness about the impending family time over the holiday season. We knew we wanted to talk about this because it's been true for each of us, it is something we have found ways to heal but also that we still can struggle with. We hope this conversation gives you permission to enjoy your holidays, set boundaries, and navigate the messy situations that might arise. Just remember now matter what, you're going to be okay, you WILL find ways to make the holidays beautiful and special for yourself through trial and error, and you have people who understand what you're going through right here in this little podcast family. Listen in and let us know your thoughts, stories and wonderings as well for our response episode next week. Links from the episode... Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's COFFEE CHAT episode, in which we share a question or comment from one of you and then have a casual round table conversation about it, we are talking about MODESTY. We share a question from a listener about modesty and how our deconstruction of modesty has or has not changed our relationship to our bodies. What an incredible question! We ran the gamut talking through this one because modesty is such a wide topic that covers more than just bodies and clothing (pun intended!) In this episode... How have our journeys deconstructing from the American Christian idea of modesty impacted our relationships to our bodies? How Becka reframed sensuality to reclaim it Size discrimination in purity culture and other confusing, unspoken modesty rules How purity culture's stance on modesty affected Vanessa's self image as a young girl and how it perpetuates self loathing for women Child birth and fitness as moments of reclamation and power The danger of modesty policing The divine feminine and what it means to us How modesty bleeds into ALL aspects of how women take up space in the world And more! Links from the episode... Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode, we are so excited to share with you an extended conversation on energy work. Is it safe? What is it exactly? How can you take baby steps into it if you are deconstructing but curious? How can it serve you? We have each had experiences with various energy workers but we also each have had moments during our deconstruction journey's when the idea of energy seemed so woo woo. We had the honor of having breath work guide and energy healer Vaughn Pierro join us in this conversation lending her expertise and experience and we hope that it helps you to feel a little more empowered in deciding if energy work or breath work is a right next step for you! Listen in and let us know your thoughts, stories and wonderings as well for our response episode next week. In this episode... Dealing with the lingering stigma of "energy" when you are deconstructing Is energy work evil? How the experiences of energy work and breath work can be felt physically Our guest Vaughn Pierro shares how she realized her gifts as an energy worker Amber shares her experience working with Vaughn How to baby step into breath work and energy work And more! Links from the episode... Guest speaker Vaughn Pierro can be found on instagram @vaughnpierro and at https://www.vaughnpierro.com Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Join us for our second "Wonder With Us" response episode where we chat about your reactions to Wondering About Enneagram (season 2 episode 3). In this episode we share more about the enneagram and deconstruction, reconstruction and how we can use it as a tool in our journey. We cannot wait to have more conversations with you about these topics of deconstruction and reconstruction. You can submit your own voice messages to us via the button on our askptw.com page. Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com @theguidedexpansion Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.comContact: http://askptw.com | www.pronetowonderco.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode, we are interviewing our very own Vanessa Fernandez about the work she does as an enneagram coach and teacher and about the enneagram in general and how it can come into play during seasons of spiritual growth. Vanessa shares the history of the enneagram, how it relates to the world religions, how it sparked her own deconstruction along with her own return to herself and how she has used it in her own reconstruction and healing journey as well as how she helps others do the same! If you've ever wondered what the enneagram is beyond what you've seen in internet memes, you'll love this deeper dive full of heart and a religious trauma informed perspective. In this episode... Deconstruction and the enneagram The history of the enneagram How the 9 main world religions relate to the enneagram Vanessa's deconstruction Is the enneagram Christian or secular? How the enneagram supports deconstruction, reconstruction, or spiritual awakening journeys The power of somatic work and the enneagram What role does working with an enneagram coach or teacher plays and is it important? How do we start using the enneagram? Links from the episode... Guest speaker (and co-host) Vanessa Fernandez can be found on instagram @theenneagramworkshop and at @theguidedexpansion www.theenneagramworkshop.com and www.theguidedexpansion.com Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Text the word "updates" to us at 770-904-9227 to get texts when new episodes drop so you never miss a thing! Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Wonder With Us! We are really excited to bring a new style of episode to you this season in the form of these response episodes where listeners like you can submit your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about each main episode topic and we will be able to share those remarks and respond to them in an episode just like this one. Join us for our first response episode where we chat about your questions to Wondering About Mental Health (season 2 episode 1) and see what we mean. We cannot wait to have more conversations with you about these topics of deconstruction and reconstruction. You can submit your own voice messages to us via the button on our askptw.com page. Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Contact: http://askptw.com | www.pronetowonderco.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Welcome to SEASON TWO! In our second season we are taking you on a journey of wondering. We asked ourselves the question of "What next?" As we grow spiritually and in maturity and as we go through a deconstruction there's inevitably a point where things shift from deconstructing to reconstructing but what happens when you don't have the community or safety to ask questions about all the things that are new and curious to you? In season two we'll be taking you along into curious conversations about the big topics that came up for us in our journeys. Starting with... MENTAL HEALTH. TW: conversation on mental health struggles, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. In honor of World Mental Health Day we are so excited to bring you this conversation about mental health and therapy and why it is so challenging to realize when we need help. What lingering voices from the past (or maybe still present in your life) might be giving us confusing messages about therapy and how do we find truth for ourselves in the midst of that? How did each of your three hosts reconstruct their thoughts on therapy and what have we learned? We had the most lovely and emotionally raw conversation with Kristi Rowles, a practicing therapist informed by enneagram and with her own experience of deconstruction and mental health. Listen in and let us know your thoughts, stories and wonderings as well! In this episode... Dealing with the lingering stigma of therapy in religious communities Bible verses that can cause confusion about mental health Shame and mental health The morality of feelings Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Therapy and Privilege (and some helpful options for anyone with less access) Sovereignty and autonomy in therapy How binary belief structures can be so toxic to our mental health How hard it can be to recognize the signs of a mental health issue Practices to check in with ourselves on our mental health Feeling guilty about feeling joy during reconstruction Links from the episode... Guest speaker Kristi Rowles can be found on instagram @fullandfreeenneagram and at @enneagramuniversity www.kristirowles.com Your hosts: Amber Humphries @amberhumphries www.amberhumphries.com Vanessa Fernandez @theenneagramworkshop www.theenneagramworkshop.com Becka Robinson @beckarobinson http://beckarobinson.com Send us your thoughts, questions, and wonderings about this episode via text or voice message at askptw.com. We will be sharing wonderings from our listeners this season in future episodes and we'd love to hear your stories and thoughts. Also please take a moment if you are enjoying this podcast and leave us a positive review. It would mean the world to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

Vanessa, Amber, and Becka bring the light back in with a conversation on what happens AFTER the dark night of the soul, a spiritual awakening, or deconstruction. In the last episode of season one, we share about the shift that happened in each of our journeys where we felt the pull to begin to sort through the pieces, clean up the mess, and begin to rebuild and move forward. Reconstruction can feel daunting but it is such a beautiful and hope-filled part of the cycle. Listen in to hear our tips for anyone who is at the same stage, not who you used to be but not quite sure what to do next. Amber shares some insights from recent life coaching sessions and her where she's at in her own reconstruction. Vanessa shares how we are co-creators of our life and how stepping into that role takes the pressure off of having to do everything perfectly. Becka shares how nature became her reconstruction mentor teaching her the beautiful impermanence of things and to stop fearing the cycles of life, death, and transformation. Follow Prone To Wonder on Instagram @pronetowonderco Season two coming soon. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe and leave us a review or send this episode to a friend. Thank you for helping us create a safe space to wonder! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode, the second to last episode of Season One, we wonder about GRIEF and how it shows up in our journeys of deconstruction, spiritual awakening, and growth. As each of the three of us co-hosts have had such different experiences and are at such different stages of this process from fully stepped away from the church to still involved weekly, from trauma to a gentle moving away, we've each seen grief show up in various ways and have had to reckon with it in our lives. Grief during this process can be such an odd emotion to navigate. You might feel shame for feeilng it at all. Or you may feel as if you deserve it for asking questions. Or maybe it blindsided you and you can't figure out how to feel good again. If you've ever felt sad, alone, disenchanted, frustrated, or angry as you've navigated the waters of deconstruction and reconstruction, we hope this conversations makes you feel less crazy, less alone, and more hopeful that there's light on the other side! Listener parental warning: We talk about a popular Christmas character that a lot of us believe in as children that most people release belief in as we grow older so if you are listening in a space where children who still believe in this holiday figure could hear, you might want to pop in some earbuds or wait till later to listen. Follow along with us on Instagram @pronetowonderco --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's special episode, we have a conversation around parenting while deconstructing or going through a spiritual awakening, or even just while questioning the beliefs you were raised with. How do we give our kids a sense of safety and understanding when we feel like we don't concretely know the answers ourselves? It can be really nerve wracking and feel like you're walking through the dark with a blindfold, but it can also be healing and a beautiful opportunity to see what happens when we create the space for wonder. This is our first sponsored episode and we are so excited to introduce you to our friends at Wonderness Co. They create themed, printable, imaginative adventure kits for kids aged 4-8. They give us a screen-free connection opportunity without all the work of trying to be a perfect Pinterest mom because all the supplies you need come in the kit ready to go! We had to tell you about them during this parenting episode because they are such a cool concept and unlike other family togetherness kits, these don't create a mess or tons of work for the parents. Hooray! Check them out at www.wondernessco.com and use the code PRONETOWONDER for 10% off your order! Please come let us know your thoughts on the episode on Instagram @pronetowonderco and share with a friend who wonders about these same things! If you enjoyed the episode, please take a moment to leave us a review and rating, and if you're new, please subscribe so you don't miss future conversations! Season two is just around the corner and it's going to be incredible! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode, Amber proposes the question of "Can someone deconstruct too much?" and "How far is too far before it just becomes more selfish than self care?" We talk about what that can look like, the question of, "What is the actual problem here, me or the environment I'm in?" as well as talking about whether it's a good idea or a bad idea to have permission to go out and try everything and how hard it is to raise kids who are empowered to ask questions. It's an episode that bounces around as we chat and we hope you find some solace in knowing that if you wonder about these things you aren't alone! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode, Becka vulnerably shares her deconstruction origin story of growing up in the church, being in leadership and then on staff for music ministry while navigating an affair and a divorce. She shares about the spiritual abuse she encountered and the abandonment she felt, how it affected her in her spiritual journey, and how she's navigated the time since then finding her own new path and rising stronger. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

**SPECIAL EXTENDED EPISIODE** The Prone to Wonder girls spent a weekend together in Tampa and decided to record a live episode. The conversation centers around body image, modesty standards, plastic surgery and reclaiming sexuality. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode we each share how we've personally navigated setting boundaries with the people in our lives as we've deconstructed, worked on ourselves, and evolved as women. We discuss different types of boundaries both internal and external, how hard it can be to set them, the importance of boundaries and how to shift them alongside the shifts in your own journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this week's episode we pose the question of, "Is religious trauma real?" And if it is, what is it? Do we have it? And could we have caused it? We share about our own experiences of recognizing trauma, how we identify it, and why we think it might not be as scary to identify as it might sound. If you've ever wondered if what you feel is "religious trauma" or if you've ever wondered if everyone is just being too sensitive, we invite you to come wonder about this topic with us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode, Amber shares about her fears (and possible heart attack) surrounding her first experience in a New Age bookshop and we address the very blurry lines between things we experienced growing up in the church and things we were told were evil by the church. Have you ever thought about how similar some of these things like manifesting and prayer, prophecy conferences and tarot readers, speaking in tongues and channeling, laying on hands and energy healers are? Join us as we question everything in this week's episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

We may not all love the name "deconstructing" but we did want to take an episode to define what WE mean by deconstructing. Our hope in this episode is to expand (always) the perspective on what deconstructing is, and give permission to make deconstructing more than simply "leaving a religious structure". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode we explore how uncertain (and even uncomfortable) expanding beyond old beliefs can be. Our conversations ranges from how we sit in that discomfort, what might ground us (if it's no longer some old doctrine or dogma) and how to allow for expansion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode we explore what role anger plays in the deconstruction process, and if there's a wrong way to deconstruct. We ask some deep questions around WHY we might each have specific fears in regards to HOW we deconstruct and where those fears come from. This is one of those episodes where the three of us differ greatly, but still respect and hold space for the mess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message

In this episode we explore how we are finding freedom from purity culture. The conversation ranges from the crushes we had growing up, the ways we are still rooting our purity culture remnants in our lives and how we are finding freedom and reclaiming sex as something that belongs to us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prone-to-wonder/message