Living + Speaking Your Truth
Oct 14, 2025
Sip of the Week: This episode explores the profound damage that occurs when your identity and your faith are positioned as enemies, and the long journey back to authenticity. Jason's story illustrates how survival mechanisms - like becoming an expert at reading people or creating elaborate webs of lies - can become so ingrained that untangling them takes decades. The conversation reveals how religious trauma doesn't just affect your relationship with faith, but teaches you that truth itself is dangerous. Through honest discussions about the pendulum swing from lying to radical honesty, the superpower of reading people, and the healing that comes from truly seeing others, we learn that building genuine community is both the hardest and most important work we can do.- Listen Now!
Let It Brew: Jason's insight about reading people shifted my perspective entirely. Growing up with religious trauma and narcissistic parenting, he learned to read people's needs and emotions as a survival skill - and it became both his superpower and his burden. His journey from "I have to fix everyone's problems because I can see them" to "I can see you and that's not about me" is profound. He reminded us that we've stopped truly seeing each other - we're all soundbites and viral videos instead of intimate human connections. His challenge: look people in the eyes, ask if they're okay, tell more stories, connect genuinely. Because fascism cannot rise in communities where people are connected and happy.
Post-Tea Pursuits: PRACTICE GENUINE SEEING this week.
Following Jason's example of radical connection, commit to one week of intentional human interaction:
- Make eye contact with at least three strangers this week and genuinely acknowledge them
- Ask someone "Are you okay?" or "How are you today?" and actually wait for a real answer
- Notice when you're reading someone's emotions - acknowledge it without taking responsibility for fixing it
- Share one honest thing about yourself with someone (even if it feels vulnerable)
WRITE DOWN one moment this week when you truly saw someone or felt seen by someone else. Notice how connection - even brief, small moments - creates ripples of kindness. Remember: building community is how we move forward!
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