HARMONIC ATHEIST - Tiffani Cappello: How to Recognize and Reject Toxic Beliefs

Today I spoke with Tiffani Cappello, who shared her involvement with the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church, where instead of focusing on love, acceptance, reasoning, and logic, the primary messages were of self-denigration, worthlessness, and of how people are bad and broken.

We walked through her story, up through her eventual deconversion from Christianity, followed by her work to help others heal from religious trauma.

Tiffani has become a Women's Empowerment Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and a Rapid Transformational Therapist. She runs the Transformed Women Academy, where she helps women address trauma and negative patterns, remove toxic stress, find happiness, and become empowered to do self-directed healing.

Tiffani runs the Transformed Women Academy, where she helps women address trauma and negative patterns, remove toxic stress, find happiness, and become empowered to do self-directed healing. Tiffani also helps oversee two FB groups: Transformed Women, and Former Fundamentalists.

We talked through:

• The ramifications of telling people they are sinful and worthless, and that you're so bad that god has to kill his own son
• Guilt and shame + judgmentalism in Christianity
• Perfectionism
• The danger of religious power without accountability
• Hell: infinite punishment for finite crimes + the issue of those who die without having heard of Jesus
• Cognitive dissonance
• Positive psychology - what do people who are happy believe?
• Core principles of psychological and emotional health
• The abusiveness of the Christian worldview
• The psychological effect of forcing yourself to believe that god is love, even though he does very unloving and abusive things.
• The idea that if god says he requires blood, and he is in charge, why he doesn't also have the power to change that requirement.
• Our ability to be deceived
• Learning to question the narrative
• How Christianity makes the world seem unsafe to children
• The lack of peace that so many of us had as Christians, which we try to explain away.
• Childhood psychological abuse
• Healing from religious trauma
• What toxic vs. healthy spiritualty looks like
• Why Christianity is mythology


Thanks to Tiffani for sharing her story and insights. Her heart to help those healing from religious trauma, and her desire to make a positive difference in our culture, shine through.

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Tiffani's website:
https://www.tiffanicappello.com/

Former Fundamentalists FB group:
  / 154924288039752  

Transformed Women FB group:
  / 1313825455458708  

Voices of Deconversion interview:
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**Please excuse the green screen issues (with my blue/green eyes) at the beginning!

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