From God to Gay

From God to Gay

The Podcast where two ex-christian lesbians take on life without God. Join Lauren and Carris as we discuss our way through our living life as out and proud lesbians having being raised in strict religious culture. Lauren grew up within the Mormon church and Carris grew up in the Baptist church. Both of us married men, and realised out sexuality much later in life, we discuss the complexities of leaving high control religion, coming out as lesbians after being married to men and having children, and how we live our lives now with all the things that come up being ex christians and being later in life lesbians.

Episodes

December 7, 2024 60 mins
Talking all things body image and delving into body shaming, comparrison and confidence!


Send us your episode ideas on instagram! @godtogay 

-Lauren and Carris


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The one where we answer all things SPICY - Do we miss sex with Men? Whats our favourite part of Lesbian sex now? All these and more answered in this Ep!

As always please support us by hitting follow and you can find us on instagram @Godtogay where you can DM us questions or submit anon questions via the link in our bio.

Lauren + Carris
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This Episod we are diving into your little guide on what NOT to say when someone comes out as well as heaps of great tips and phrases for supporting anyone that does come out and what you CAN say!

Keep tuning in we love to see the support and love over on our instagram page @godtogay and you can email us anytime @ godtogay@gmail.com

Lauren + Carris


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October 15, 2024 42 mins
After a short break, we're back! This season we're trialling shorter episodes for easier listening and this week we chat about Loosing My Religion - what happens when it all starts to come crumbling down? Your religion, your world view, your faith. What steps do you need to take, do you have to take any at all?

Websites mentioned in this episode are:
Recovering from religion

www.quitmormon.org 

and

@postmormoncoaching on the gram.

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Lauren dives into some weird mormon practices that she used to have to do in the mormon church, and we speak about Gaydar - is it real?
As always you can write to us any time via the instagram @godtogay or email us at godtogay@gmail.com

We love hearing from you!
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Lets catch up! Today's episode comes long awaited and we catch up about happenings in our own lives as well as whats happening lesbian land across the world. 
We go into some horrible dating stories sent in by listeners and boy is it both hilarious and horrifying. Dating women is not for the faint of heart!

As always please write in to us over on instagram @godtogay or you can email us your thoughts or ideas at godtogay@gmail.com

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April 15, 2024 70 mins
Our first ever guest onto the podcast - We welcome Jess - Lauren's girlfriend. Jess shares her own journey to coming out and accepting herself as well as some of the road blocks she's faced as a result of coming out.
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December 15, 2023 64 mins
What does Christmas look like now that we don't have church on sunday morning or not celebrating the birthday of Jesus? Delving into what christmas used to look like for us, and how it looks now that we no longer believe, and are also, parenting solo around christmas. Everything is different now that's for sure!
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This week we're discussing some of the complexities of lesbian relationships, both percieved and real complexities, we're putting a homophobic trigger warning as we all discuss Sam Kerr's recent engagement announcement and some of the horrible homophobic comments that were blasted in the comment section of their announcement.
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November 15, 2023 69 mins
EXPLICIT WARNING GUYS!

Honestly really explicit, we deep dive into all the lesbian lingo you've heard, some you haven't and what the meaning behind it all is and our personal thoughts on some of the more harmful lingo and stereo types that exist. There's alot of explicit sex talk and other juicy stuff that's not for kiddo's ears. Mum and Dad, if you're listening please skip this one I beg of you!
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This week we delve into the little moments and thoughts that started us questioning our faith and beliefs and how that eventually led to leaving our religions.

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September 28, 2023 71 mins
It is the long awaited next installment of Purity Culture, and no doubt this wont be the last one either.

This Episode we go into a more personal experience of how purity culture affected us both in our Het Marriages, and the effects of that when we came out.

We also delve a bit into what the Men where taught at church regarding purity culture.

Please give us a rating/follow where ever you're listening.
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This week, after a long break thanks to a clash of schedules - we are talking about Emotional Intelligence and Christianity, or rather the lack there of within the teachings of christianity.
We go into what little we were taught within the churches about emotional intellgience and Carris gets up on her soap box about the the lack of accountability within churches and christian communities.
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This week we're talking about the harmful stereo type and the assosciations that come with the word "lesbian". Carris shares some of the instantances she experienced these harmful associations and we delve into how we come to accept the word as part of our identity.


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August 17, 2023 59 mins
Going into the question - can religion be done unproblematically? The hows, the whys, what are the good parts and what needs throwing out?

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Got Questions? You can email us at godtogay@gmail.com or hit us up via instagram @godtogay

-Lauren and Carris
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August 3, 2023 65 mins
This week we go into what are ours do's and don'ts when you're diving into the big wide world of dating women! We go into how the divorce and coming out affected our dating experiences and also the huge difference in our dating experiences from when we were good little christian women!

As always, we love to hear from you!

Please like, follow, subscribe wherever you're listening and you can follow us on Instagram @godtogay for episod...
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July 27, 2023 78 mins
Welcome back to From God to Gay! We're jumping right into some hard hitting and wild topics this season! Starting off this Episode we go back through what we were taught about the Devil and the influence it had over us when we were in religion.

A little trigger warning for this episode as we acknowledge depending on where you're at in your deconstruction journey or beliefs that this can be a fearful/anxiety provoking topic.

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June 29, 2023 59 mins
Q&A - We had some amazing listener questions including, Carris's experience at bible college, talking about "Fatphobia" within the Lesbian Community, and staying in Het Marriage when you've realised you're gay! And many many more.

Our final Episode of the season and we can't wait to get recording on season TWO of God to Gay!

As always please remember to rate, like, follow and share this podcast wherever you're listening!

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This episode we are talking about the complexities of compulsary heterosexuality and how that played into alot of us late in lifer's coming out journey and we explore why people within the LGBTQ community feel the need to come out at all.
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June 15, 2023 67 mins
This episode we're talking about all things divorce, healing and grieving. The process of a divorce is so hard on all parties and we chat about the added layer of figuring out you're sexuality and dealing with all the layers of that on top of the divorce.
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